‘Just send them’: Man blows fiancee away at her custom sewing shop, then waits ‘at least’ 10 minutes before calling 911, police say

A Florida man is facing multiple charges for allegedly killing his fiancee at a storage facility where she worked and lived — shooting the woman once in the chest and then waiting “at least” 10 minutes before calling 911, according to police.

“He just kept saying, ‘Just send them. Just send them,'” recounted Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek in an interview with local ABC affiliate WPBF about the 911 call made by Javier Saenz, 43, early Sunday at around 12:30 a.m. after he allegedly killed 55-year-old Tonya Sidebottom in Jensen Beach.

“Our fire rescue dispatchers could hear a lady screaming in the background, ‘Gunshot! Gunshot!'” Budensiek told WPBF. “She didn’t say that he shot her, but they could ascertain that there was a woman in dire distress.”…

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