Violent history preceded slaying.

David Drommond put his hands around his ex-wife's neck and choked her.
After threatening to kill her, he eventually let her go, but, according to an affidavit Janeil Drommond would later write about the March 20 incident, he "could not promise me that what happened tonight wouldn't happen again."
Police say David carried out the threat to kill Janeil when he fatally shot her on his front steps Sunday.
Well before the shooting, Janeil described her ex-husband as a man who had problems controlling his anger.
In her petition for a protective order, filed the day after he allegedly choked her, Janeil said that before they were married, David "got very angry with his mom one day and he was pacing in the backyard hitting himself in the head." She claimed that after they wed, there were other outbursts, such as his pounding his fist through a wall or on the kitchen table when they argued.
"He's gotten very angry several times, but he usually just gets in the car and leaves," Janeil wrote.
Married on Halloween 1995, the couple had a son in February 2002 and a daughter in June 2003. David and Janeil Drommond split in May 2004, according to court records, and a divorce decree was issued in January.
Todd Weiler, Janeil's attorney, said the divorce was amicable. Janeil took David the paperwork, he made suggestions, and the two reached agreements without going to court, Weiler said.
"Out of all the divorces I've handled, this is one of the smoothest," Weiler said.
In the divorce, the couple agreed to joint legal custody of the children with the mother retaining physical custody, meaning the children lived with her, and David received "liberal visitation" rights.
But things apparently took a turn in the early hours of March 20, when, according to Janeil's petition, David became angry at her for calling a male friend on his company cell phone. He went to her home in Woods Cross, argued with her, then threw her to the ground and choked her for 30 to 60 seconds.
"He told me he had come here to kill me," Janeil wrote. "He said a lot of things, like: 'I've wanted you dead for a while now. We have a decision to make, either I'm going to kill you or you're going to kill me tonight.' " Janeil wrote that David had tried several times to commit suicide and was upset she didn't love him anymore.
He left about 3 a.m. and she called her father and Woods Cross police.
David Drommond was charged in the Woods Cross Justice Court with domestic violence assault, a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. David was a first-time offender who appeared to be "very remorseful" and was accepting responsibility for his actions, according to D. Michael
Nielsen, who prosecutes criminal cases for Woods Cross, West Bountiful and North Salt Lake.
Nielsen said he offered David a plea in abeyance, whereby the defendant's guilty plea was to be held for six months and then dismissed if he completed counseling and treatment, and committed no new offenses.
Nielsen called the April 14 plea resolution "a typical treatment for first offenses if the attitude is one of remorse and acceptance" of responsibility.
"It's sad that this one didn't work out," Nielsen said.
Because of the new homicide allegation, Nielsen said he is now drafting a document asking Justice Court Judge Robert Peters to enter David Drommond's plea as a conviction.
In granting Janeil's protective order, the 3rd District judge retained David's visitation rights but ordered her to deliver and pick up the couple's children at David Drommond's parents' home on Bountiful's east bench.
On Sunday, though, for some reason still unknown to police, Janeil took the children to David's residence in the 200 West block of Bountiful's Lyman Lane.
"I don't believe she believed he was capable of doing something like this," Weiler said.
As David Drommond opened the door, police say, the children ran inside and their father stepped out, firing two shots at Janeil. Her father, 53-year-old Neil Reed Bradley, who came to keep the peace between the former couple and was waiting in a car only a few feet away, ran to her aid. David then shot him in the abdomen and wrist, police said.
"It looks at this point that it was a premeditated kind of a deal," said police Lt. Steve Gray.
David Drommond, who is in the Davis County Jail, is not cooperating with investigators, Gray said Monday. As for what spurred him to allegedly shoot his ex-wife, Gray said, "The straw that broke the camel's back, we think, is her plan to get remarried."
That wedding, Gray said, was supposed to occur sometime at the end of this week.
University Hospital listed Bradley in critical condition Monday.

Source: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2985024

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