Thursday, September 15, 2011

Washington, DC: Slain D.C. woman had sought protective orders

The District woman fatally stabbed behind a Northeast recreation center Tuesday had sought multiple protective orders against her husband, who has been charged in connecting wit the slaying.

As recently as Monday, Alecia Wheeler, 42, had sought and obtained a protective order against 48-year-old Claude Kinney, according to documents filed in D.C. Superior Court.

Police found Ms. Wheeler suffering from multiple lacerations at about 3 p.m. Tuesday in the 1200 block of Neal Street Northeast, about a block from her home.

Mr. Kinney was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder while armed.

On August 11, Ms. Wheeler applied for a temporary protective order against Mr. Kinney, describing a series of violent assaults in court documents that date back to 2010.

The day she sought the protective order in the District was the same day a final protective order filed in Prince George’s County was denied, according to online court records in Maryland.

According to the complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court, Ms. Wheeler stated that during a February incident Mr. Kinney told her that he would slice her throat and that if she tried to take their three children he would make up lies about her to have her institutionalized. On several other occasions, she said, Mr. Kinney hit or slapped her.

On Monday, Ms. Wheeler applied for another civil protective order in the District stating that in early September Mr. Kinney left a stack of “vile” fliers at her mother’s front door that claimed she would perform sex acts with men. In the same complaint, she wrote, Mr. Kinney hit her with his face as he tried to kiss her and that he left her alone only after she hit him with a brick.

When Mr. Kinney’s sister was informed by a reporter Wednesday about her brother’s arrest, she said family members saw no indication of violence between the couple, who had been together for at least seven years and married for two years.

“I never saw any violence between them,” said the sister, Annie Kinney. “Whatever happened between them, it went on in their house.”

The couple had recently separated, and Mr. Kinney, an electrician, was staying with his sister and mother. However, the family had been cut off from contact with Ms. Wheeler and the children for some time, said Ms. Kinney, adding that her brother maintained a strange secrecy over where he had lived with his wife.

Mr. Kinney is scheduled to appear today in D.C. Superior Court.

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