The beloved veterinarian murdered by her New Jersey cop ex-boyfriend reached out to considered one of his state police colleagues when he threatened to kill himself simply months earlier than the tragic murder-suicide, the girl's sisters stated Tuesday.
Lauren Semanchik's contact with the feminine colleague presumably led New Jersey State Police Lt. Ricardo Santos to bear a psychological analysis at his job in Might, sisters Allison and Deanna Semanchik instructed The Submit.
However Semanchik's plea for assist additionally fueled his erratic rage, his sisters alleged, which ended when he fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and her new beau, Tyler Webb, Friday evening earlier than turning the gun on himself.
The slain couple was discovered by Semanchik's father the subsequent day, with Santos' physique found about 50 miles away in his automobile.
After the pair broke up in September, Santos started a relentless marketing campaign of harassment in opposition to Semanchik, 33, that ultimately satisfied her to hunt assist.
“He has been threatening to kill himself and Lauren being herself, was involved for his well-being regardless of every little thing he had carried out to her already,” youthful sister Allison Semanchik, 28, stated in an interview.
“She didn't need that to occur and didn't need that on her conscience so she solely knew one person who additionally knew him and contacted her, and from what I understood and what I used to be instructed by my sister that bought him put below psychological analysis.”
Allison and her different grieving sister, Deanna, 36, confused they don't know if he really underwent a psychological checkup or confronted different motion — however they each slammed state police for not recognizing Santos' psychological well being issues and serving to him.
“A bit little bit of due diligence for his or her folks, the people who they claimed to assist and that we're imagined to depend on to guard us,” Allison stated, including, “It needs to be extra of a requirement that they really be checked up on.”
State police and the New Jersey Legal professional Basic's Workplace didn't reply to emails in search of touch upon whether or not Santos underwent a psychological analysis.
The legal professional basic's workplace stated in an earlier assertion it was withholding remark till prosecutors in Hunterdon County wrap up their probe of the unthinkable crime.
Lauren's sisters stated that after she reached out to the feminine colleague, Santos grew to become extra unhinged and accused her of making an attempt to smash his profession, which included offering safety for Gov. Phil Murphy and different dignitaries.
Semanchik thought he had keyed her automobile outdoors her job the next day, which led her to file a police report in Lengthy Valley. Santos was notified that he was a suspect within the vandalism, in line with Deanna Semanchik.
She later went to the police station in Franklin Township, the place she lived, in hopes of submitting a restraining order, however was instructed nobody was capable of assist at the moment and to name a quantity, Deanna stated.
Semanchik known as and left a message that was by no means returned, her sibling stated.
Franklin police additionally didn't reply to a request for remark.
In New Jersey, a courtroom finally decides whether or not a restraining order will probably be granted, however police departments can assist with the method, in line with Lauren Van Metre, the chief director of Secure in Hunterdon — a middle that served home violence survivors.
Allison stated Semanchik treaded rigorously about whether or not to lodge a restraining order as a result of Santos was a police officer, whereas Deanna added, “She simply hoped that he would go away.”
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