‘Don't worry about it,' Orlando woman tells police officer after man's body found in stairwell

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 51-year-old woman fatally shot her 63-year-old fiancé Tuesday evening at their apartment, the Orlando Police Department said.

Someone called 911 at about 6:45 p.m. to report that a man’s body was lying in a stairwell at the Rosemont Country Club Apartments on Cinderlane Parkway near North Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando police spokeswoman Michelle Guido said.

Neighbors heard the sound of gunfire coming from an apartment at about 6:15 p.m., Guido said.

A police officer found Evertt Humble, who was unresponsive and whose chest was bloodied, lying on his back on the apartment porch, and Paula Hobbs standing in the stairwell, an arrest affidavit said.

When the officer asked Hobbs what was going on, she said, “Don’t worry about it,” then locked herself in the apartment, the report said.

Investigators said officers convinced Hobbs to come out of the apartment and they removed a duffel bag from the staircase to make way for firefighters. The man was pronounced dead shortly before 8 p.m.

Detectives searching the apartment for evidence found splattered blood and a .22-caliber revolver in the bottom drawer of a bedroom dresser, the arrest affidavit said.

Investigators said they determined that five of the gun’s nine rounds had been fired.

“If you tell me he is dead, I will tell you why I did it,” Hobbs told police at the scene, the report said.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of both of the people involved,” said property manager Alison Yeackle.

She said Humble was a DJ and radio host, who had moved in last summer.

“He was a really nice gentlemen. He had bought me flowers because he loved his apartment when he moved in,” said Yeackle. “Sent me notes every time I paid my rent. Told me I was the greatest apartment manager in the state of Florida.”

Channel 9 obtained an arrest report which shows Hobbs was arrested on a domestic violence charge in Pensacola Beach last August after allegedly hitting Humble and throwing a cup in his face at a DJ event.

She was sentenced to one year of probation.

Hobbs was booked into the Orange County Jail on a first-degree murder charge.

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