Harrison Twp. man killed; fiancee arrested
Jessica Grieco called 911, said she shot fiance in chest accidentally.
Six hours after a Harrison Twp. woman frantically told a 911 dispatcher she accidentally shot her supposedly suicidal fiance, she was arrested and could face murder charges.
Jessica L. Grieco, 33, called 911 at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and told dispatchers she shot Peter Underwood, 32, at their home on Claggett Drive in Harrison Twp.
“He’s shot in the chest. Get here now,” Grieco yelled. “He’s going to die.”
Underwood died of a shotgun wound to the chest, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office, which completed his autopsy Wednesday morning. The coroner ruled Underwood’s death a homicide.
Grieco repeatedly yelled, “Oh my God” and said: “I tried to
unload it. It went off because he was trying to commit suicide earlier.”
“I had to take a rope from him earlier,” she said in the call, which the Dayton Daily News obtained through a public records request.
Grieco said the shooting was an accident and that the gun was sitting still on scene. The dispatcher told the woman to keep pressure on Underwood’s wound. At one point in the call, there’s a noise that sounds like dishes getting knocked on the floor.
Montgomery County Sher- iff Phil Plummer said the case is still under investigation and that his office will talk to prosecutors today. “So I am anticipating some kind of charges tomorrow.”
Grieco is being held in Montgomery County Jail on suspicion of murder and drug possession.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the single fam- ily home at 6:27 p.m. after
the 911 call. She was booked into the jail at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
“It’s totally shocking,” said Shawn Kauffman, a neighbor in the area near Northridge High School. “This neighbor- hood is quiet.”
A woman later was seen crying in a police cruiser.
“You hear occasional arguments but you don’t think something like this is going to happen,” Kauffman said.
The incident report said photos, a projectile bullet/ casing, blood and a weapon were among the evidence from the shooting.
“It scares me because, like I said, you never know in this neighborhood,” neighbor Ronda Williams said. “I’m scared to even come out at nighttime.”
At the end of the five-minute 911 call, the woman can be heard telling a deputy, “I was trying to take the bullet out of his gun ...”