During 911 call, woman admits stabbing, learns boyfriend is dead

OCALA - An Ocala woman called 911 at 1:57 a.m. Monday to say she had stabbed her boyfriend during a confrontation.

Ocala police and fire officials arrived at the Oaktree Village home to find that Shawn D. Haney, 45, had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper torso. A Fire Rescue paramedic pronounced him dead at the home, 4037 N.W. Blitchton Road, Lot 10-D.

The caller, Donna Pickelsimer, 50, was wearing blood-stained clothes and reeked of alcohol, according to the Ocala Police Department. Pickelsimer did not speak with detectives, but she had told the dispatcher that the weapon - a steak knife - was on the floor in the residence. Police officials recovered the weapon.

Pickelsimer - who had lived in the apartment with Haney - was charged with second-degree murder.

A recording of the 911 call includes sometimes seemlingly matter-of-fact responses from Pickelsimer:

"My boyfriend's outside. He's been stabbed, and he's bleeding profusely because he takes Plavix to begin with," she told the dispatcher, referring to an anti-clotting drug used to treat heart disease.

The dispatcher asked: "Ma'am, who stabbed him?"

"I did," Pickelsimer answered.

"You stabbed him?" the dispatcher asked again.

"Yes, I did," she answered.

When asked why she had stabbed Haney, Pickelsimer responded with one word: "Confrontation."

Pickelsimer told the dispatcher he was still bleeding when she went inside to get the phone. But when she returned to his body outside, Pickelsimer exclaimed: "Oh, my God, I think he's dead."

He did not appear to be breathing, she said. "There is no pulse, Ma'am. ... There is no pulse. There is no pulse."

It sounded then as if Pickelsimer was becoming increasingly upset, while neighborhood laughter could be heard in the background.

"What's the matter?" the dispatcher asked.

"I don't think he's alive no more," she said. The dispatcher told Pickelsimer to stay on the line while police and emergency medical services personnel were on the way.

"How long has he been outside, Donna?" the dispatcher asked.

"Maybe 10 minutes," she said. Then she could hear the ambulance coming.