Just a piece of paper
Slain woman had restraining order:
Here in the Charlotte, NC area there was a murder recently that has kind of shocked The Queen City.
49-year-old Beatrice Fells was allegedly gunned down by her estranged husband Larry in broad daylight.
On Monday morning about 7:15, witnesses reported seeing two women walking along Queens Road West when a white SUV pulled beside the pair. A witness said someone shot from the vehicle at one of the women.
Larry Fells eventually turned himself in. However the main focus of the article is the fact that Beatrice Fells had a restraining order out on her husband at the time of her murder.
Fells told authorities in November that her husband, Larry, was violent and had hit her before. She wrote that she feared he would hurt her or her children, and that this wasn’t the first time she’d sought protection from authorities.
In seeking the protective order, Fells said she’d been living with her mother since the last time her husband had struck her, on Oct. 5.
“He keeps calling my phone,” she wrote. “I’m letting it go to my answering machine. He now is calling my job. I been going through this for some time now. He apologizes the next day (and) he is alright for a day or week… Then (it starts) all over again.”
So my question to you is since it’s obvious that restraining orders are pretty much useless what’s a domestic abuse victim to do? Legal suggestions only please.
Tags: Beatrice-Fells, charlotte, Domestic Violence, Larry-Fells, murder, restraining-orderPOSTED IN: Domestic Violence
7 opinions for Just a piece of paper
Bay
Dec 4, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Really not anything legally that can be done UNTIL he actually does something sad as that sounds it is true. Only thing I can offer is what worked for me.
Pack your kids and some clothes and pictures (in case he finds and snatches child you have picture) and get out and get out NOW. If it is to do nothing but to run to a new city and get into a battered women’s shelter that is the Only safe thing. It can be hard but it will at least assure you live.
You can get out You just have to have a lot of determination and faith
Trench
Dec 4, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Thank you Bay.
Sarah
Dec 5, 2007 at 8:41 am
I agree with Bay, you have to protect yourself…and the only way is to leave immediately without warning or alot of material possessions. You can make more money, you can buy more things…but you can not replace the lives of yourself and your children. Someone needs to do a study and find a way to prevent men from committing domestic violence and murdering their spouses.
Trench
Dec 5, 2007 at 8:44 am
As a man I wish I had the answer but it’s just unfathomable to me why anyone would do that.
tis
Dec 11, 2007 at 11:58 am
I know this lady, she did move, she was living in York pa but then moved to where she was eventually killed, to be with her family. Okay so now that you know she did indeed packed her kids up and left now what does a woman do.
Bay
Dec 11, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Sadly not everything works for everyone. I was simply sharing as said what did for me. I am sorry for your friends situation. I can say and I do not mean to sound harsh or like I am laying blame.
I is their first stop when looking for the abused partner. Thankfully in my situation he never knew where I was really from nor who my family was At the time he met me I was living with a family who took me in as their own (I was a teen runaway long story in itself) So he had no clue about the other life. I was able to return to my hometown. Even had he found my parents or family they would have been little help to them their last contact with me was when I left at 17. They made a choice to not be involved with my life and I made a choice to never look back. It was a bad one on both our parts but either way he never knew them and had he found them they would have never been able to offer him any information.
Also to be honest in my own opinion and I know everyone has their own thoughts on things of this matter but I feel God was with me. Someone helped me live through that beating be it a guardian angel God whatever. I had something watching over me.
I do believe there is not enough out there to help woman or men and yes there are some men who are also abused. I wish there was better laws, and better programs, sadly there are not. I have found women with No kids catch Heck trying to find help. Yet ladies who have kids get a bed in a heartbeat sorry to say that but it is what I have found. So the system is truly lacking but do we sit and do nothing and gripe or do we try to help others. I choose to do my best at least what I am able to do in order to help others
Again sorry for your loss.
Jocelynn
Mar 7, 2008 at 12:04 pm
thats crazy. i have a friend named beatrice fells..and she was shot and killed by her boyfriend…weird
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