Charges Filed In Love Triangle Shooting

A former police dispatcher has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly shooting her husband’s lover with a .357 magnum handgun.

Barbara L. Flomer, 36, said she pointed a revolver at Delaine Hawley of Viola, heard four shots and then felt herself squeezing the trigger, according to a court document.

Hawley remained in critical condition at the Moscow hospital after the Saturday shooting, Latah County Prosecutor William Thompson said.

According to an affidavit filed Monday in 2nd District Court, Flomer ordered her husband, Rick, to drive to the park to “finish this thing.”

At about 5 p.m., the Flomers found Hawley sitting in her vehicle at Mountain View Park, the affidavit said. Both got out of the car and approached Hawley. Hawley rolled down the window at Rick Flomer’s request and he told her the affair was over and not to call or see him again.

Hawley then rolled up the windows and locked the doors, refusing to get out of the car, Moscow Officer John Mittmann wrote.

“The shots were fired, and Barbara Flomer said her husband took the gun away from her.”

“In the patrol car, Barbara said spontaneously that she was tired of” (the affair), “She said ‘she’ll probably die and I will get the death penalty,”’ Mittmann wrote.

Magistrate William Hamlett scheduled a preliminary hearing Aug. 28 and set bond for Barbara Flomer at $75,000. If convicted, she faces 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.

Barbara Flomer has worked as dispatcher for the Moscow and Pullman police as well as the Latah County Sheriff’ Department.