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Husband kills pregnant wife in front of kids, police say

- By Brian Ballou Staff writer DEATH, 4B

After brutally pummeling his pregnant wife to death with a pipe wrench in front of their four childrenWe­dnesday night, Claude Sejour called 911 and waited outside his home for authoritie­s to arrive, according to aHollywood Police report.

When police arrived, they found Sejour, 48, with blood on his white button-down shirt, his hands and cheek. And inside the house, they found his wife’s lifeless body on the bed and the couple’s four children nearby.

“I did it, I finished her and called police and went outside. … I’m not crazy,” Sejour told Hollywood Police as they approached him, according to the report.

Sejour’s alleged violence, according to the report, erupted just before 11 p.m., when his wifeMarieC­armelJosep­h put herboyfrie­ndon speaker phone, and he told Sejour that her unborn babywas his, according to the report.

Sejour was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Broward CountyMain Jail.

Before police were summoned to the house by Sejour, a neighbor was drawn there by screaming. Sejour waved the neighbor, identified in the report as Alvaro Garcia, to his frontyarda­ndtoldhimw­hathehaddo­ne. Sejourwas in the process of calling 911.

Garcia also called 911 and went inside the house on the 5800 block of Thomas Street and into the couple’s bedroom, where he found their eldest child, a 17-year-old girl, shaking her

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