INDIANAPOLIS — On the night of March 5, 2023, Dorothy Brinker was out with friends whom she told she dreaded going home. This was because of the increasingly angry phone calls she was receiving from her husband David, who was with their infant daughter. When Dorothy returned to the family’s eastside home, she argued with her husband, grabbed the keys to their pickup truck and attempted to drive away. In the early morning hours of March 6, Brinker followed his wife into the street armed with a gun in his hand, hung on to the moving truck, reached inside the cab to grab the car keys and, he said, accidentally fired his gun, killing his wife.
Brinker admitted what he had done to the first IMPD officers to arrive on the scene,…..