It's just after midnight in Winter Springs, Florida, [music] where police respond to a 911 call after a woman allegedly shot her [music] child's father over an argument sparked by a dirty diaper. >> All right, [music] doors open. 136 door is signal 88. >> WINNERS BREAKS POLICE. >> Put your hands up. >> PUT YOUR HANDS UP. LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS. >> I need you to step out, ma'am. >> Step out. >> Come out here. >> Who else is inside? >> Who else is inside right now? >> My son's in there, please. >> Okay. >> Come out here. Come out here. >> Lay on your belly. Lay on your belly. Lay on your belly, please. >> Okay. Lay on your belly. Lay down on your seat. WINTER SPRINGS POLICE COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS up >> for me. >> He's eight. He's eight. >> What's the name? What's the name? >> He's sleeping. Please don't don't show. Don't Don't let him sing. Don't let him. Don't let him see. Please >> step off. Please don't. Don't show Don't show my skin. Do you have any weapons on you? >> Okay. Where is the gun? It's on the floor in the >> Okay. Where on the floor? >> Which one? >> Next to the back door. >> Next to the back door. >> Hey, Sarge. >> There should be a gun right there. You see it? >> Yeah, I see it. All right. >> Stand right here. Okay. >> Where's Where's our son? >> Inside the bedroom. >> Okay. >> Police identify the suspect seen here as 38-year-old Lorie Adams, the mother of an 8-year-old with special needs who allegedly just shot and killed the child's father. >> Okay. >> All right. >> I need you to take a breath for me. Sure. >> What happened? >> He's driving me. He's riding my son. How did he do that? >> He's been doing it for years. >> Okay. >> And I just had enough. I couldn't take it anymore. Okay. >> You want to? >> Yeah. >> I got you. You're good. >> Relax. Calm down for me. Okay. Just relax. Just breathe. >> Okay. Just be careful with all. Listen. Just breathe right now. Take your time. Relax. Just breathe. Okay. That's all I need you to do for me right now. Just relax and breathe. 127 F9s. I don't >> I don't know. >> You got anything on? You know, >> I think there's a lighter. >> A lighter. That's it. Okay. Don't worry about it. Just give me a second. All right. Just relax. >> I got you. Look, look. Look. You got to relax. You got to relax. Okay. Your son's not going to see. Don't worry about it. We're not Okay, just relax. First responders find 51-year-old Adele Toi unconscious and suffering from a single gunshot went to the head in the balcony area. Investigators said the man was rushed to the hospital where he later died. >> Right. So what was the we started talking and I got interrupted. >> My son pooped his pants. >> Okay. So he's starting to do commercial. What is that? Threaten me. Threaten to hurt him. Threaten to threaten to throw me out. Threaten to beat me. Call me names over and over and over and w let my son hear it and watch it not. I have what was the specific threat tonight. Aside aside from all that, I'm not discounting that. Was there a specific threat tonight? >> Do you want to tell me where that was? >> Where were you sitting? >> When I watched when you said that or when I >> Yeah. When when all of this happened. >> No. Were you guys uh engaged in talking then or >> you can go ahead and Is he a husband or boyfriend? Father. Okay. You guys remain together for sleep. >> Yeah, I do. >> That's how he treats me. kept looking here. I was the crazy one and I didn't have anywhere else to go. Mhm. And I I called you guys every time and you always put me in the hospital because you know I was crazy. There I am because I just did. I'm I don't know. I think that okay. I got tired of it. I couldn't take it in the morning. I don't even know who he really is. That's stupid cuz I have a kid. He wasn't nice. I don't I don't like being abused. Lori paints a disturbing picture for the officers detailing alleged ongoing abuse and saying she was treated quote like a dog before she said the argument over the child's accident sent her over the edge. >> Um she's talking right now. >> What did she say in regards to what happened tonight? >> Okay, so they got into a 22. Okay. >> During that 22, he had threatened to kill her. >> Okay. >> Um he threatened to kick her out. Um I guess it started because their shared son um defecated and he got upset by that. >> Okay. >> Without prying too many questions, I it it it sounds like there was a time gap between when the argument happened and when the actual shooting occurred. Um it she was standing in the sliding glass doorway, >> so she wasn't on the porch. So, she was on the p or in the doorway when she shot him. So, I think it's it's finally starting to hit her. Like, >> she was like through and through through this way, though. >> It was from what I saw. >> Okay. >> Um, so, basically, we're trying to figure out is just off the rip, like, you know, the get it before we get into the nitty-gritty. >> Mhm. >> Is there a chance that it was self-defense? Based on what I'm looking at, I don't it there the evidence doesn't at least from looking at that there's no mess. There's no indications of a physical location. >> Um where he was found, he was sitting in a chair, >> right? >> Um >> no word of where she got the gun right yet. >> No, not yet. Their relationship is only co-arenting, cohabitating. They are not a couple. They just have the child in common. Obviously, still DB, but um she got tired of it. Her bed is in a laundry room. That was my next question. >> He says or she says that he treated her like a dog and she got tired of it. >> All right. So, is it is it chest pains? What is it? You having trouble breathing? >> I'm panicking. >> You panicking? >> 127 springs? >> Can we have FD51 reference to a female having trouble breathing? >> Just my anxiety. >> Anxiety. Okay. Yeah, we'll get him out here. Just relax. I'll get him out here. I just thought him for you. Okay. open sat down. >> And then what happened after that? Once he opened the door and got on the balcony, >> I went to the guy into the closet. >> Okay. >> At the top of the closet was his gun. >> It was his. Okay. >> And I loaded it. >> Okay. It was already loaded or you had to take the bullet, put it in yourself. >> I put the clip in there. >> What kind of gun was it? >> I don't know. >> You don't know? Okay. Go ahead. Then what happened? >> I turned safety off. >> Okay. >> Locked up to the back porch. >> Okay. Okay. I open the door >> and I um >> Okay. Was there an argument before that that made you go inside that bedroom prior to that? Was it an argument? Is that what you're saying? Or >> No, >> there was an argument, but >> No, what I'm saying. >> It was like for me it wasn't an argument anymore. >> Okay. >> It was the same thing over and over. over. >> Did something happen before that incident which you just told me about? Did something happen before that? Like right before that? >> When he got married, when my son cooped himself >> and then that's when you he went out to the balcony rapidly. >> No, after he got done yelling at me and yelling at my child. I'm sorry. >> Yelling at my child. >> And he probably has a stomach ache or something. >> Yeah. >> He He was yelling at him in a way that he yells at me. >> So that was my question. So the part that you told me about the balcony, he went out there to rattle and he sat. We sat down. >> Okay. Did this happen right before that with the pooping situation or was it earlier in the day? >> Right before. >> Right before that. Okay, that's what I was asking. Hold on. >> It was right before >> and then as soon as I did, I put the gun on the floor and it helped me. Okay. How long would you say that from the argument for him threatening you that it went from there to you pulled the trigger? >> 15 20 minutes >> and that's when you went inside >> just to confirm. That's when you went inside the bedroom. You said the top closet show. >> Okay. >> Is it his or yours? >> It's his. You never saw. >> Lorie now tells police she took 10 to 15 minutes to calm down after the argument before grabbing a gun from a closet and heading out to the balcony where she said her soon tobe victim was smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer. You hit you at >> He shoved you backwards like with hands right both his hands and you >> upper like a neck on my chest. your chest. >> Just go back, close the door. >> Close the door. Is that all that turn physical? Just that part. >> Okay. >> And then what was he saying like when after your son pooped his fans? What was he saying to your son? And then what was he saying to you? >> He just sit down. >> No, I'm saying like what what were there like the threats? Like you said he was threatening you guys to harm you guys. What was he saying within that time? >> He said he was saying he's going to take >> Okay. >> Because of the way he treats me. uh saying I'm useless. I'm lazy. I'm the most disgusting thing on the planet. I'm a [ __ ] I'm every every name if you can think of it. He He said it yesterday. >> You guys been home all day? >> Um I I took a walk. I got home about 600. >> 6. Okay. Were you guys arguing during? >> It was fun. >> We works for Uber. Today's my It was my day off and I usually I go out and I I take a vlog with me. I go out and sit sit in the spot where it's quiet to take a break. And um I came back and he was like an hour late or something or I was like he said I was like an hour late. >> Oh. I was like I don't work today. I'm sorry. And then I started yelling because you can't go anywhere because >> So he got upset because you were out too long. Is that what it was? >> He got upset because he couldn't leave because my son >> You were He was Okay. What time is that? >> About 6ish. >> I texted him like the other day. >> I asked her. I says, "If I commit a crime, a serious crime, can I meet you guardian?" And she said, "Yes. I think that was two or three days ago maybe. >> And he pushed me. >> And after that, >> did he did he physically push you or did he just push you like verbally? Okay. >> No, he pushed me. Okay. >> He told me. So she >> It was the last It was the last told me. So she actually >> baby's father got taken to the hospital. Hospital. >> Yeah. He's not dead. I >> honestly I wouldn't be able to tell you that. I don't know. I'm not at the hospital. I just know he got transported. That's why I pulled you earlier to the side so they could take him out. So, I didn't want you to see. I'm sorry. We're going to escort you to my patrol car. Okay. We're going to head up to the Winter Springs Police Department. Okay. A little bit cooler. I'm feeling a little bit better. Feeling a little bit more cool. I want to take a deep breath. >> Okay. >> It'll probably help once we get you out of the handcuffs and stuff like that. Okay. >> All right. So, let's take a walk. All right. >> Okay. Still, you want I'll do >> Okay. >> So, my car is like right here, so we don't have to walk very far. Okay. 19, right? >> Just step down for me. >> Step down. Step down. >> You don't have any weapons or anything. American or >> you want to be buckled. >> Buckled. >> Do you want to be buckled in? >> No. >> No. Okay. >> We'll be getting uh we'll be leaving here in just a minute. Next, police escort Lori to the police station where she gets a chance to explain herself to detectives. >> Okay. So, tonight he came home at 11:30. >> About that time. >> Okay. Um, he was upset, came in, checked on your son, realized your son had I figured he must have had a sleeping, right? They do that. Um, so after he was yelling at wherever you went, he was yelling at your son. >> I was I took him into the bathroom to clean him. I told him to leave so I can clean him and he had me and he kept saying to him like, "We're not going backwards." >> Okay. So, you were in the bathroom cleaning your son. I cleaned him up and um I gave him a bath, clean like a butt, put three floors on >> and his bed and fell asleep. And then a devil because he was so angry about it, he started yelling about you've done nothing. I have I have put up with you for long enough. You You need to leave my house right now. You need to get out of my apartment. You go crazy, you piece of he he just kept going on and on and I had to sit there like a child and listen and you just sat there and listened to him yelling. What did Adele do next? Please grab the deer and see where did she what h what did he do once you pull the trigger. What did you do after the door? It didn't stop and I just snapped. I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't take it anymore. He said something that triggered me. It was bad. And I I called him the name and told him to get out of my face. And he said something. I can't remember [music] what he said. I had a snap. >> And you don't remember what he said to you? It was It was like I guess it's the same thing he's always been saying to me. He said, "I hope you die. I will see you or go yourself or get your ass out of my house and I don't even want to see you trash. You wipe out my >> So what was different tonight's argument about any other argument? >> You threaten to take my child away. >> Have you ever done it before? No. thought it was a person I deserve to. >> Well, he's always told me, you know, we don't need you to get out. We don't need you to get out. Oh, you can't do it by yourself. You can't even survive by yourself. How are you going to take care of your son? He's like, oh, you you're not even here with your child and you're a child. What did you do? Lori admits several times to pulling a trigger that ultimately killed her child's father months before she would learn her fate. Lorie was indicted for firstdegree premeditated murder with a firearm. Court records show she later pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 25 years behind bars.