Julia Pete waited for her boyfriend to finish cleaning the pool. And last week, she fired a 9mm Beretta multiple times as a man entered through the sliding back door of her home in western Arizona.

A few hollow point bullets cut through his body. Mark Corbett fell, but he didn’t die. There, according to a police report detailing the killing, former Los Angeles police officer Pete finished him off with a final blow to the head while standing over the bleeding body. It says.

Pete, 60, was a decorated police officer during his tenure with the Los Angeles Police Department. Known for her caring demeanor and recognition for her work in South Los Angeles, she received her prestigious Crystal Angel Award at the 2008 True Her Blue Her Police Foundation Celebration. Did.

Pete told homicide investigators he worried about his safety after a conversation months ago with a woman who was considering a tripartite relationship.

The woman, whose name was not included in the police report obtained by The Times, reportedly confessed that Corbett “killed a police officer but was not arrested in the case.” Another woman said Corbett threatened to kill her if she told anyone, but Pete said he had never used her violence against her, according to the report. .

Pete told detectives he understood the police officer’s killing took place in California. Investigators have not confirmed details of Corbett’s past, but court records show he had a criminal record in Washington state and was convicted of a felony.

Shortly after the alleged murder of 69-year-old Corbett on June 22, Pete called the Lake Havasu Police Department and confessed to the shooting. She called him an ex-boyfriend and said he was a felon. When police arrived, she emerged from her home with her hands in the air and her mobile phone tucked between her ear and shoulder.

She left the Beretta on the kitchen counter.

Almost from the beginning, Lake Havasu investigators questioned Pete’s claim that the crime was a voluntary act. Instead, the investigation found clues that Pete had been planning the murder for at least a day, the report said.

Pete told investigators that after learning of the alleged murder of a police officer, he told Corbett “she didn’t love him” and began carrying his belongings out of the house. She also stopped drinking, moved her gun to a neighbor’s house, and she told several people that she may have known Corbett found out about her past.

The day before the murder, Pete went to the local police department and asked them to conduct a background check on Corbett. However, police officers were unable to provide any information.

So Pete got the gun back and loaded a new hollow point round into the 9mm. The next day, she meets Corbett at an RV dealership, and she invites him over to her home right after lunch, telling her she wants to give their relationship another chance.

But in reality, she admitted to police that she was waiting for him to “fall off guard,” according to the incident report.

Arriving home, she kisses him and asks him to clean the backyard pool, pulls out a packed Beretta and sits in the kitchen, giving him time to wait for his return. A police report said Corbett started shooting as he walked through the sliding door.

She later told investigators that Corbett yelled, “Why?” when she shot him.

Officers found 11 shell cases scattered around Corbett, who was lying on his left side in a white shirt, blue plaid pants, and white tennis shoes. A police report showed blood pooling around his head and chest. Gunshot wounds were found on his right cheek and forearm.

Lake Havasu Police Sergeant Michael Terinoni said Pete told investigators that he was a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who shot Corbett because his life was in danger. He was arrested on suspicion of premeditated murder, he said.

Pete was taken to the Mojave County Jail in Kingman, Arizona, where he was held in solitary confinement. Around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, her guards found her unresponsive. A garment was wrapped around her neck. A statement from the Mojave County Sheriff said her guards tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriff announced her death as a suspected suicide.

Los Angeles Police Department officials said Pete retired from the agency in 2017 and until recently worked in the Department’s Ports Division, which included his former residence in San Pedro.

“The Los Angeles Police Department is aware of a murder charge committed by former police officer Julia Peet, who left the department in 2017,” Chief Michelle Moore said in a statement. “We extend our condolences to the victim’s family and former police officer Pete, who reportedly committed suicide while in her custody.”

A Lake Havasu police report said Pete told investigators that he was “previously addicted to painkillers” due to an unspecified illness that led to his retirement from the LAPD. She also said she had recently stopped drinking and that she was taking “a lot of prescription drugs.”

In one police report, Pete’s daughter told investigators that the last time she saw her mother was about a year ago, when Pete was “manic”. Her daughter also recalled her mother’s boyfriend had a “prison tattoo.” The police report did not reveal the identity of her daughter, but she said Pete called him the week of the shooting, saying he was concerned about her safety. .

A photo posted on social media of Pete sitting on top of her Harley-Davidson next to a man with long, gray hair and a beard is one of the few photos showing her in action in recent years.

A resident of Bullhead City, Arizona, Corbett has lived in the area for the past few years. Records indicate that he had previously lived in Altadena.

Corbett was sentenced to two years and six months in prison in 1979 in Walla Walla County, Washington, according to correctional records. They indicate that he also worked under the alias Mark Lemon Peck.

A man named Mark Peck, who was born in the same month and year as Corbett, was convicted of murder in Tennessee in 1989, according to court documents and other records. Authorities said Peck also shot the man because of romantic feelings. He has an affair with the man’s wife.

According to a news article, during the murder trial, prosecutors compared Peck’s actions to those of King David. In the Bible, King David sent the faithful soldier Uriah into battle to kill David so that he could be with Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba.

Peck initially faced the death penalty, but was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He later appealed the sentence on the grounds that FBI agents gave shaky testimony at his trial. Peck was granted parole at one point, but it is not immediately clear when and under what circumstances he was granted parole. Under Tennessee law, even those sentenced to life in prison may be eligible for parole after serving 51 years.

But court records and early reports indicate that Peck’s legal troubles may have begun even before he was charged with murder.

At the time of his conviction, Peck was reportedly on the run from authorities in Louisiana and California, the latter of whom wanted him in connection with two murders in Orange County and Van Nuys. was

Another news story at the time quoted a local sheriff saying that Peck belonged to a California gang and fled to Tennessee because he could get a driver’s license without fingerprinting.

At trial, prosecutors argued that Peck’s aliases, including Jerry McCarthy, Joe Orosco and Mark Corbett, allowed him to evade authorities for a long time.