Plymouth man allegedly shot girlfriend in head, fled to Wisconsin: Charges

PLYMOUTH, Minn. (FOX 9) – A Plymouth man is accused of taking pictures his girlfriend after a celebration at their home after which driving to Wisconsin the place he disposed of the gun. 

Austin Robert LeClaire, 26, is charged with second-degree tried homicide after his 23-year-old girlfriend was discovered of their storage with a gunshot wound to the top on Nov. 25, in response to court docket paperwork. 

On the evening of the taking pictures, Plymouth Law enforcement officials had been dispatched to a home on the 14300 block of fortieth Place and had been flagged down by a neighbor who had LeClaire on the cellphone. He initially known as 911 and instructed the dispatcher he was speaking along with his girlfriend on the cellphone when he heard a gun go off. 

Officers entered the storage and located LeClaire’s girlfriend subsequent to a automobile mendacity on the bottom in a pool of blood. She was transported to the hospital, and as of Friday, she stays in important situation with “everlasting, severe, life-threatening accidents,” in response to court docket paperwork. 

LeClaire talked with the police on the cellphone and instructed them he heard his girlfriend respiration however not speaking after the gun went off. He claimed he was at work throughout the taking pictures however was at present on his method house and ought to be there in about 20 minutes, in response to the legal criticism. 

After not exhibiting up for over an hour regulation enforcement discovered his location by way of cellphone information and noticed he was in Wisconsin heading east. He was finally pulled over by regulation enforcement in Clark County and brought into custody. 

An individual who was on the couple’s house for a celebration simply earlier than the taking pictures occurred instructed investigators LeClaire known as him 45 minutes after he left saying his “gun went off,” and hit his girlfriend. LeClaire allegedly stated he didn’t know what to do, and the particular person instructed him to name the police, the criticism states.  

Investigators searched LeClaire’s automobile and positioned containers of ammunition, loaded magazines, and free bullets however didn’t discover a gun. LeClaire allegedly instructed regulation enforcement he had disassembled the gun whereas driving on Freeway 29 in Wisconsin and threw the gun out of the passenger facet window “probably close to a river,” the criticism reads. 

In response to court docket paperwork, LeClaire confirmed “little concern” for his girlfriend throughout a three-hour interview with investigators. Cellphone data present he was texting individuals, together with the person on the get together and his grandmother, simply an hour earlier than the taking pictures complaining how his girlfriend was “on my final nerve” and “she has me so f—ing irate,” the criticism reads. 

LeClaire made his first court docket look on Friday. The choose set his bail at $500,000.