Man forced to hand over Nintendo Switch to ex-wife as part of pending divorce 'blind fired' her dead after 'she got really mad' he showed up: Police

Grim caller details person emerged successful a execution lawsuit retired of Kansas, wherever a antheral allegedly changeable and killed his estranged wife during an statement amid a narration marked by a past of abuse, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Sunflower State.

Joshua Orlando, 29, stands accused of intentional and premeditated murder successful the archetypal degree over the decease of 25-year-old Ivy Unruh, Sedgwick County tribunal records show.

The shooting occurred astatine the Remington Apartments connected East 37th Street North successful Wichita, the Wichita Police Department said.

On the greeting of April 17, aggregate instrumentality enforcement agencies arrived successful effect to a shooting. A fewer minutes past 8 a.m., officers recovered Unruh adjacent "Building 5" suffering from a gunshot coiled to her precocious body. A weapon was besides discovered nearby. The unfortunate was rushed to a hospital, wherever she died a fewer days later.

Now, authorities assertion Orlando himself made the 911 telephone that day, according to tribunal documents precocious obtained by Hutchinson-based CBS affiliate KWCH. In that call, the suspect allegedly made respective telltale statements astir what led to the fatal violence.

"My woman and I got into a fight," the 911 caller says astatine 1 point. "She deed maine … with a …"

Though the verbal mentation is not complete, the antheral identified arsenic Orlando continued to picture the day.

"I came to driblet immoderate worldly disconnected and she got truly huffy that I was there," the caller says, according to a probable origin affidavit. "We were arguing and she deed me. She deed maine and I tried to support myself. I thought she was going to plaything again with…"

Again, the words trailed disconnected — but the antheral aboriginal admits to shooting Unruh.

"I changeable her, I changeable her," the caller says, according to the affidavit.

As instrumentality enforcement arrived, Orlando was placed into handcuffs but implored exigency aesculapian services to assistance Unruh, authorities said. Amid these last-ditch requests, the defendant, done tears, allegedly said: "I cognize she didn't mean to wounded me."

The charging papers describes the transgression country successful detail.

The unfortunate was lying connected her backmost with her caput connected the bottommost measurement of a stairway with humor coming retired of her nose, instrumentality enforcement said.

On Unruh's close enarthrosis was strapped a achromatic backpack; her close manus clutched a integrative container containing a Nintendo Switch gaming console, and connected her near limb was her purse. She was seemingly acceptable to leave.

On the near broadside of her body, Orlando had seemingly dropped a achromatic Sig Sauer P365 semiautomatic 9 mm handgun, authorities said.

Investigators obtained a connection from the leasing cause astatine the victim's flat complex, who said that erstwhile Unruh rented the unit, she said she wanted to get distant from her abusive ex and was funny successful the building's information features.

The leasing cause went connected to accidental that Unruh had asked her not to interaction her erstwhile landlord due to the fact that that idiosyncratic was a person of her ex, according to the affidavit.

In August 2025, Unruh filed for divorce, records cited by the TV presumption show. Notably, successful 1 conception of the divorcement petition regarding organisation of assets, Unruh said Orlando would support possession of his pistol portion she would support possession of the Switch.

Unruh worked for PBS Kansas arsenic a broadcast engineer.

Law enforcement besides interviewed her supervisor astatine the network. The supervisor told investigators the unfortunate had separated from her hubby owed to verbal and carnal maltreatment — and said she had seen bruises connected Unruh some successful pictures and successful person.

Orlando, for his part, said the impending divorcement had aggregate causes, including that Unruh had cheated connected him, according to police.

In the days starring up to the shooting, the suspect said helium contacted the unfortunate astir a survey nighttime since they some attended classes and could stock notes, according to instrumentality enforcement. That invitation, however, led to yet different statement and, finally, a determination that their narration issues could not beryllium fixed — and with plans for Orlando to permission immoderate of Unruh's spot astatine her door.

Instead, connected the time of the shooting, the suspect went to Unruh's flat and waited astatine the ft of the stairs with the Switch successful a bag, Orlando told police, according to the affidavit. Then, erstwhile she saw him, she allegedly said: "Holy s—!" and made an aggravated face.

The antheral handed implicit the console and a last statement ensued, helium said. Then, astatine immoderate point, Unruh allegedly "swung the container with the Nintendo and struck him connected the near broadside of his face."

Orlando said the stroke hurt, made him spot lights, and brought backmost an unwanted representation of a clip erstwhile Unruh attacked him successful reprisal with a replica Zelda sword aft helium threw a slipper astatine her.

After being hit, Orlando pulled retired his handgun, utilized his near limb to screen his face, and "blind fired" a azygous round, according to the affidavit. The suspect maintained helium was not aiming erstwhile helium fired.

In a reappraisal of surveillance footage, investigators determined Unruh near her flat astatine 15 seconds past 8 a.m. — and that the gunshot went disconnected 52 seconds aft the hour. The 911 telephone was made 21 seconds aft 8:01 a.m.