An Annapolis woman was financially troubled when she fatally shot her live-in boyfriend Tuesday and then turned the gun on herself, Anne Arundel County police said.
Helen Elaine Clapsaddle, 43, of the 600 block of Admiral Drive, was having “financial difficulties coupled with domestic issues” involving her boyfriend, Michael Missimer, 39, said Sgt. John Gilmer, a county police spokesman.
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Police said Clapsaddle shot her boyfriend in the upper body and then took her own life with a gun found in the apartment that was registered under her name.
Clapsaddle had placed a disturbing call to 911 about 12:25 a.m. Tuesday, telling the dispatcher to send officers to her apartment quickly, police said.
Clapsaddle told the dispatcher, “Get us or you will find two dead bodies,” according to police.
When officers arrived at the Harbour Gates Apartment, no one answered the door, police said.
Inside the third-floor apartment, police found Clapsaddle and Missimer in the master bedroom. Both had gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Relatives of the victims could not be reached to comment Wednesday.
Missimer’s death marked the third homicide this month in Anne Arundel.
Nathaniel Wallace, 37, of Baltimore, was fatally shot Jan. 10 following a bar fight at Dietrich’s Tavern in Glen Burnie. Police arrested Ricco Gough, 28, of Glen Burnie, on first-degree murder charges in Wallace’s slaying.
Less than a week later, a baby girl from Pasadena died at Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Baltimore from brain injuries consistent with being violently shaken, police said.
The infant’s father, John Wayne Wirick Jr., 32, admitted to police that he shook his 1-month-old daughter, Lilyanna, to make her stop crying. He was charged with first-degree murder and abuse.
