Husband lights celebratory cigar while standing over dead wife he just blew away, daughter hears mom pleading 'please don't kill me': Police

An Arizona antheral blew his wife distant with four gunshot blasts and past lit up a celebratory cigar portion lasting implicit her assemblage — with their teen girl uncovering him covered successful humor and puffing distant connected it aft proceeding her ma pleading "please don't termination me, delight don't termination me," according to police.

"Why would you bash this?!" Robert Marin's daughter yelled astatine him aft coming crossed the ghastly country successful the store of Marin's Phoenix location connected Monday night, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

The 60-year-old allegedly responded by "shrugging his shoulders" and walking retired of the garage. He past "returned … to fume a cigar" implicit his wife's body, according to the affidavit, portion the couple's girl tried to execute CPR and called 911.

The victim, Heather Marin, was Marin's estranged woman and had gotten into an statement with him astir their girl staying with him, the affidavit says.

"[Marin's] teenage girl reported she and Marin were successful a verbal statement earlier successful the evening," the papers alleges. "During this argument, Marin expressed hatred toward the unfortunate [Heather Marin], from whom helium was informally separated and successful the process of divorcing. The girl explained she had besides confronted her begetter with her concerns astir the dynamics of the separation which apt fueled the hostility of the argument."

As things escalated, the girl told constabulary she "overheard Marin marque a heated and aggravated telephone call" to Heather Marin, efficaciously telling her that "he could not woody with their girl anymore and did not privation the girl to enactment successful the location immoderate longer," according to the affidavit.

The girl "retreated" to her bedroom, wherever she made a telephone telephone to her fellow and past received 2 telephone calls from her mother, 1 astir 8:39 p.m. and different astir 9:09 p.m., but she did not reply either of them "as she was acrophobic it would further upset her father," the affidavit states.

"Sometime aft the unanswered call, [the daughter] aboriginal heard screaming coming from the store area," the papers alleges. "As she walked towards the store entranceway doorway from the house, she distinctly heard her parent pleading, 'Please don't termination me, delight don't termination me,' followed by astir 4 gunshots."

When the girl opened the interior doorway to the store from wrong the home, she saw Heather Marin bleeding connected the crushed and Robert Marin "standing adjacent oregon implicit her holding a firearm."

Police judge the execution happened astir 9:30 p.m. and was premeditated owed to Robert Marin's "indifference aft the shooting, electing to fume a cigar alternatively than render aid," according to the affidavit, on with a fig of different factors, including Heather Marin allegedly "pleading for her beingness earlier being changeable aggregate times."

When cops arrived astatine the home, they recovered Robert Marin wrong the store "with humor connected his covering and shoes," according to the affidavit. A firearm, holster, and spent casings were discovered successful the garage.

"When deputies contacted the suspect, helium dropped to his knees upon their accomplishment and was detained without making immoderate statements," the affidavit states. "Deputies noted a beardown odor of intoxicant coming from Marin during transport to a MCSO [Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] installation for questioning and processing."

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The girl told cops astir a anterior "unreported home unit incident" from aboriginal February 2026, during which Robert Marin held a firearm successful his manus and threatened to sprout Heather Marin successful the caput earlier sidesplitting himself, according to the affidavit.

She besides described receiving screenshots of substance connection exchanges betwixt her parents containing "hateful and threatening language," constabulary say.

"[The daughter] confirmed that Marin was an avid weapon proprietor with aggregate unsecured firearms stored passim the residence to see pistols and hunting rifles," the affidavit explains. "She besides described a ample harmless successful a closet wrong the location which besides stored firearms and ammunition."

Robert Marin was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He's being held successful the Maricopa County Jail connected a $2 cardinal currency bond.