'Just shoot me': Woman gets what she asked for after she shows up to boyfriend's house wanting to get to know his new girlfriend intimately, police say

An Arizona pistillate is down bars aft shooting and killing her erstwhile roommate successful a bizarre emotion triangle with a convoluted communicative and shifting allegiances, constabulary successful the Grand Canyon State say.

Taylor Renee Roediger, 40, stands accused of 1 number of murder successful the 2nd degree, according to the Mesa Police Department.

Law enforcement has yet to merchandise the victim's name.

The underlying incidental occurred connected March 30, astatine a residence adjacent the intersection of Sossaman Road and Southern Avenue successful Mesa, the country's largest suburban city located immoderate 18 miles eastbound of Phoenix.

The unfortunate herself is said to person traveled to the defendant's location precocious connected the nighttime successful question, according to tribunal documents obtained by Mesa-based NBC affiliate KAZT, section Fox affiliate KSAZ, and Phoenix-based TV presumption KTVK and section CBS affiliate KPHO, which collectively broadcast arsenic "Arizona's Family."

Between 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., the unfortunate was seemingly drunk and trying to get backmost unneurotic with her ex-boyfriend, who was the defendant's existent fellow astatine the time, authorities said.

As the unfortunate was talking to her ex-boyfriend, trying to "rekindle" their romance, however, Roediger spotted the different pistillate extracurricular the location connected her chamber information monitor, according to police.

In effect to the unwanted visitor, the suspect confronted her erstwhile roommate astatine the beforehand doorway and asked her to leave, constabulary said.

Then, the women got into a verbal altercation, prompting Roediger to permission the residence and spell connected a walk, hoping her fellow would beryllium capable to get the different pistillate to permission the location by the clip she got backmost home, according to instrumentality enforcement. That did not happen.

Upon her return, the suspect recovered the different pistillate bare successful her room with her boyfriend. Then, the unfortunate allegedly asked Roediger if she could person enactment with either her fellow oregon the couple, according to the tribunal documents.

Next, a carnal combat ensued, constabulary said. The unfortunate past allegedly made comments astir the couple's narration and tried to onslaught Roediger, who is said to person dodged and gone for her purse.

Again, Roediger near the house, constabulary said.

This time, the suspect allegedly said she waited until it sounded similar her erstwhile roommate and her fellow went into the chamber together. Then, erstwhile she got backmost home, the statement continued. This time, however, the different pistillate and the fellow allegedly threatened to "beat" Roediger, according to the tribunal documents.

That's erstwhile the suspect grabbed the gun, constabulary said.

After the suspect allegedly removed the limb from down the headboard of the bed, the ex-roommate went into the bathroom. Then, the seemingly drunk pistillate said she would, successful fact, sprout herself if Roediger and her fellow did not permission her alone, constabulary said.

Here, the communicative becomes adjacent little clear. The fellow allegedly said thing astir the woman's determination — doubting her being successful the bathroom, according to the tribunal documents. The suspect continued to outcry astatine the different pistillate to leave, constabulary said. Then, the unfortunate allegedly yelled astatine Roediger: "Just sprout me."

Based connected the dependable of the woman's scream, the suspect allegedly estimated that her onetime roommate was adjacent the washer and dryer. She past squeezed the trigger and fired a lone circular toward the partition shared with the bath and bedroom, constabulary said.

The slug recovered its mark; the unfortunate was struck successful her precocious body. She yet collapsed adjacent the beforehand doorway and died.

To perceive the suspect archer it, she lone intended to sprout truthful arsenic to scare the unfortunate and her fellow truthful that they would permission her alone.

In the chaos that followed, Roediger allegedly near her location with the weapon successful tow, buried the limb successful a neighbor's planter box, and past hid herself successful a antithetic neighbor's RV, constabulary said.

The suspect was arrested a abbreviated portion aboriginal wrong the RV, conscionable down the thoroughfare from her residence, instrumentality enforcement said.

Roediger is presently detained successful the Maricopa County Jail connected a $500,000 cash-only bond.