An Ohio doctor who published a study on “the violent and homicidal adolescent” was gunned down by her teen daughter’s boyfriend and his roommate in an alleged hit against her parents.
Tamela Dutcher was allegedly shot in the face by Christian Evans and Dajameous Payne during an invasion inside her Delaware County, Ohio, home on Aug. 14, according to court records viewed by The Post.
Dutcher, 55, was sitting on the couch when Evans, 20, and Payne, 21, charged into the home and fired a single shot just after midnight, according to WBNS.
Dutcher’s husband rushed to his wife’s aid when the gunshot alerted him.
Evans and Payne shot at the defenseless husband but missed their shot before fleeing the residence, officials said.
First responders were called to the home and rushed Dutcher to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Officials claim Dutcher’s daughter, 18-year-old Bryanna Dutcher, set up the alleged hit on her parents after an argument with her mom over chores she was told to do earlier in the day.
The younger Dutcher was quietly seeing Evans because she didn’t want her alleged “very racist” parents to know she was dating a black man or else she would be kicked out of the house, according to a police affidavit obtained by Oxygen.
The night of the fatal shooting, Bryanna Dutcher texted Evans about the argument in which the suspected gunman suggested murder.
“If I were you, I would have killed her,” Evans said, according to the outlet.
Evans appeared at the home with Payne and waited outside for 15 minutes before his girlfriend confirmed the Dutchers’ locations.
“Alr shes living room he’s basement where you’re here Imk,” the younger Dutcher allegedly texted.
Evans responded, saying they were preparing by putting on gloves and would “take them both out at the same time.”
After the shooting, Bryanna Dutcher allegedly attempted to hide the identity of the suspects, claiming she didn’t see anyone before accusing her mother’s friend who owed her money.
“It is believed that Bryanna repeatedly lied to law enforcement about her knowledge of the circumstances involving this incident, which delayed identifying leads and suspects,” police wrote in the affidavit.
Evans and Payne were later identified as the suspects and police spotted the secret boyfriend dumping a bag of trash into a dumpster outside his apartment that contained a gun holster and pants.
Evans’ father told police he got a text from his son saying “had f–ked up” with his GPS location pinging near the Dutchers’ home at the time of the shooting, Oxygen reported.
Police also obtained phone records from Bryanna Dutcher’s phone that contained texts from Evans that read “once they both pass away” and “also I believe you should also get a gun.”
Tamela Dutcher co-authored an article titled “The violent and homicidal adolescent. Hearts darkened before time” where she hauntingly discovered that most young female killers target their relatives.
“The vast majority of youth arrested for homicide are males. Those few girls who kill tend to kill family members,” Dutcher wrote alongside co-author Daniel Davis in the January 2002 article published by the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
The report also focused on the race of the killers compared to the socioeconomic status of the suspects.
“Roughly one sixth of all Americans under the age of 18 years are African American; in recent years, approximately one half of the youth arrested for homicide are African American,” the article said.
Bryanna Dutcher, Evans and Payne have all been charged with Aggravated Murder. Dutcher was also hit with an obstruction of justice charge.
Prosecutors accused the trio of “purposely, and with prior calculation and design, causing the death of Dutcher, according to an indictment.
They are being held in the Delaware County Jail.
On Friday, Evans’ attorney filed a “suggestion of incompetency,” claiming the suspected murderer is not fit to stand trial and should be evaluated by a physician while behind bars.
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