A Colorado man is headed to prison for decades after shooting his ex-wife in the neck and leg while she was sitting in a car with their kids in the backseat.
“I think I just killed my ex-wife,” Brandon Allen, 48, told a police dispatcher after calling 911 to report the gun attack, which unfolded in his ex-wife’s driveway at her Longmont home in March 2024, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.
Allen’s ex, Nicki Douglass-Johansen, survived the shooting. She told the Longmont Daily Times-Call that doctors believed one of the bullets entered through the left side of her neck, sliced one of her right carotid arteries, then hit the right side of her neck and “bounced all around” before coming into contact with her jaw and shattering…