Kewaii Rogers-Buckner was shot and killed in front of her three children by her husband after Judge Richard Saxton failed to grant her request to have his firearms removed. Based on the history, and the threats being made, he should have been in jail, but this mother and her children were failed by the justice system and society.
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Victim sought protection order from suspected killer husband
This mother filed a protection from abuse order Thursday morning making the request, claiming Buckner threatened to kill her with a gun numerous times and she was scared for her life. By Sunday night, the 31-year-old was dead, allegedly killed by her husband, Donnell Buckner, in a flurry of gunfire.
In the petition for the protection from abuse order, Rogers-Buckner said Donnell Buckner made threats against her life around 12:45 a.m., last Thursday, “saying that I should leave all my money in the bank for the kids because I won’t need it.”
“I said to him that if you’re going to shoot me, then just shoot me, because I am tired of your threats and I can’t take it anymore,” Rogers-Buckner wrote on the petition. “He said, ‘yea, yea, you will see.’”
The previous day, last Wednesday, Buckner asked Rogers-Buckner if she wanted to play a game of Russian Roulette, she said. She told him, “No, I do not.”
“I was sitting in my living room, next to the door, in the event he tried to pull out his gun on me,” Rogers-Buckner wrote in the petition. “He then said, ‘close the door.’ I stated, ‘no, I will not close the door,’ but he insisted, so since I was afraid, I went on my porch.”Buckner locked Rogers-Buckner outside the house, she said, and did not open the door until her 12-year-old daughter came home from school, around 2:50 p.m.In the petition, Rogers-Buckner requested custody of her minor children, ages 9, 11 and 12.“Mr. Buckner is very adamant about keeping me in Pennsylvania,” Rogers-Buckner said. “He consistently tells me that he will hurt me if I leave him. He takes all the keys to the vehicles that are in my name so I can’t get away. He sated if I leave he will find me and if he doesn’t find me, he’ll kill my parents.”The incidents last Wednesday and Thursday were the latest in a series of threats and violence inflicted on Rogers-Buckner by her husband, Rogers-Buckner said in the petition.Last June, Buckner pushed Rogers-Buckner down a flight of steps, causing injuries that required treatment at a hospital emergency room, she said. Last October Buckner pulled a gun
on Rogers-Buckner and fired a shot, she said. The bullet pierced through a couch and lodged in the floor, she said.
“He took me into the bedroom, where I was begging for my life,” Rogers-Buckner said. “He stated that he knows that someone heard the shots and if the police came he would blow my head off and then kill himself by the time they came. He said it would be all over and they couldn’t protect me.”
“I am afraid to sleep at night because he is very unstable and I don’t know what he will do,” Rogers-Buckner said.
