NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department found a man dead in his closet on Tuesday after his wife had reported him missing on Monday.
Fifth District officers went to Touro Street, where Tonica Mutin had reported she had last seen her husband leaving their home.
According to our partners at The Advocate | Times-Picayune, investigators spoke with a neighbor who said they had heard beating on the Mutins’ door and then a loud pop as the husband asked, “So you’re going to shoot me now?”
After speaking with the neighbor police went into the Mutin home and found 47-year-old Darnell Mutin buried under a pile of clothes in a bedroom closet with a bullet wound to the back of his head. He was declared dead at the scene.
While officers were at the home Tonica Mutin and her attorney showed up at the NOPD police station to address the incident. Her attorney admitted that she had killed her husband after he allegedly hit her and attempted to strangle her.
Tonica Mutin was booked and arrested for one count of second-degree murder and one count of obstruction of justice.
Anyone with additional information on this incident is asked to contact NOPD Homicide Det. Miles Guirreri at 504-658-5300.
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