Woman Facing Attempted Murder Charge In Shooting Former Police Dispatcher Used Gun To End Husband’s Affair

Former police dispatcher Barbara Flomer has been bound over to 2nd District Court in a preliminary hearing into the Aug. 17 shooting of her husband’s alleged lover.

She is scheduled to be arraigned on an attempted first-degree murder charge on Sept. 9.

Husband Rick Flomer cited his Fifth Amendment rights against selfincrimination and refused to answer questions in court.

But Barbara Flomer’s attorney, Michael Henegen, announced to the court that she, by Idaho law, may be guilty of nothing more than a misdemeanor.

The victim, 37-year-old Delaine Hawley, remains in very serious condition at the Moscow hospital.

Surgeon Bruce Ham testified she lost her spleen, pancreas, a kidney and portions of her liver and left lung. Her heart was also bruised, her diaphragm ripped and one bullet remains wedged near the base of her neck.

“It is potentially life-threatening at this time,” Ham said, adding Hawley is conscious and can sit up.

Henegen argued prosecutors William Thompson Jr. and Robin Eckmann failed to prove malice. Therefore, the allegations against Flomer constitute a misdemeanor, he said.

It is a misdemeanor for anyone to intentionally or unintentionally point a gun at another person and cause injury, he said.

According to police reports, Flomer told officers she remembered holding the gun, hearing several shots and then feeling her finger squeezing the trigger.

Magistrate William Hamlett was not convinced. He cited a comment Barbara Flomer allegedly made to her cousin a week before the shooting, in which she said if the affair was not finished, she would “take a gun and splatter Hawley’s brains.”

The shooting occurred at Mountain View Park in Moscow.

Police officer Paul Kwiatkowski testified he responded to a 911 call and found Flomer in the parking lot. Hawley was in her Jeep and wounded.

He said Flomer approached him and said, “She’s there. She’s in there. I shot her.”

Thompson has not ruled out the possibility of charges against Rick Flomer. He and his wife drove to the park to meet Hawley, according to police reports.