A man called 911 to tell police to come to the home on Hoyt Drive in Bellefontaine Neighbors. They would find dead bodies inside, he warned, then hung up.
About midnight Thursday, after the harrowing phone call, police rushed to the home and went inside the unlocked front door. Inside, they found a woman and her 15-year-old son shot to death — and the suspected caller dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound under his chin.
Police identified the mother as Katrina Banks, 31, and the teen as Kevin Johnson, 15. The man was identified as Banks’ fiancé, Dornubari Dugbor, 31.
The couple got engaged to be married in January.
In a back bedroom, officers found the couple’s 4-year-old daughter. She was pretending to be asleep in her room, Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Chief Jeremy Ihler said. The little girl had been in the home when her parents and half-brother died but was unharmed.
Ihler said the little girl had heard the first shot before midnight Thursday and came into the living room to find her mother on the floor. Her father told her to go back to her room, and she obliged.
“She heard several shots fired after that,” Ihler said.
Ihler said investigators initially thought it might be a triple homicide with the shooter on the loose. The trajectory of some bullets appeared to come from the front door. So he asked the Major Case Squad to help.
Police in Bellefontaine Neighbors have since determined it was a murder-suicide. The man, Dugbor, was found dead slumped on a couch with his cellphone in one hand and a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol in his lap.
The 911 call, about 11:50 p.m. Thursday, came from his cellphone. The caller, a male, refused to give his name; he gave the home address and was specific about the number of bodies police would find inside.
“He said three,” Ihler said.
Police are still trying to determine a motive. They say the man lived at the home on and off but also had a residence in St. Louis . Police say relatives didn’t report any mental health issues or any conflicts between the man and woman. Police haven’t heard any theories from relatives as to why he would kill them. The girl is being evaluated at a hospital, as a precaution, then will be turned over to relatives.
Ihler said police believed Banks was shot at least once in the living room, and her teen son heard the gunfire and was shot in the same room, then retreated into a hallway where he collapsed and died. The teen was not the son of the killer, Ihler said.
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