Sean Bush was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of his wife Nicole Bush
According to court documents Sean Bush would attack his estranged wife Nicole Bush beating her with a baseball bat before shooting her multiple times
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At 5:47 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, an intruder used the master code to disarm the alarm panel in Nicole’s Julington Creek townhome. About thirty minutes later, Nicole called her friend Tracie Walker for help but did not respond when Walker answered the phone. Thinking that Nicole had called her accidentally, Walker hung up the phone, but she was concerned about the unusual phone call and called Nicole back. When Nicole answered the phone, Walker heard her saying “help” and gasping for breath before the phone disconnected. Walker again tried to call Nicole, but the call went directly to Nicole’s voicemail.
Walker then called a mutual friend, Lenora Jerry, and asked her to call Nicole. Nicole answered Lenora’s phone call and asked for help, saying that she could not make it to the door. Jerry and Walker decided that Jerry, who lived closer to Nicole, would go to Nicole’s home to check on her.
Jerry and her husband, Thalmus Billington, traveled together to Julington Creek and called 911 en route to ask that an officer be dispatched to Nicole’s home to conduct a welfare check. When they arrived, Jerry observed that Nicole’s garage door was up, and the door leading from the garage to the interior of the home was open. Jerry and Billington looked around the outside of the home and did not see any signs of forced entry. Then, they walked through the garage and the interior door into the kitchen, where Jerry called out to Nicole. Nicole did not respond, and Jerry and Billington walked outside and met the responding officer, Deputy Graham Harris.
After talking with Jerry and Billington, Deputy Harris entered the home and announced his presence. Upon hearing a mumbled voice coming from the second floor, Deputy Harris walked up the stairs and noticed red stains on the carpet. He walked to the master bedroom, where Nicole lay in a pool of blood. She was conscious but severely injured. Nicole asked for help and told Deputy Harris that she had been shot in the head. Deputy Harris asked Nicole who attacked her. She said she did not know, but she consistently referred to the attacker as a “he” or “him.”
Paramedics arrived shortly thereafter and observed Nicole’s “immediately life-threatening” injuries, including multiple gunshot wounds to her head, as well as bruising and severe swelling. They asked Nicole questions to determine her level of orientation, and although she was generally unresponsive, she continued to ask for help and state that somebody shot her. Nicole was transported to the trauma center at Shands Hospital in Jacksonville, where she died at 8:51 a.m., shortly after arrival.
That afternoon, St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office Detective Sean Tice received instructions to contact and interview Nicole’s husband, Sean Bush. Although Bush and Nicole were married at the time, they had separated and were living apart. Detective Tice and Deputy Jessica Hines went to Bush’s home in Jacksonville, informed him of Nicole’s death, and proceeded to interview him.