MAN HELD IN HANDGUN ATTACK ON WIFE

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, January 4, 1992

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Yvone Kaiser told police her husband returned home a few days ago with a 9mm handgun he had just bought on the street in the Bronx and pointed it at her.

“It only takes one shot, right between the eyes,” Kaiser, 29, told police he said to her at the time.

On Thursday, after a dispute over money, Kaiser stood six feet away and fired the gun at his wife as she sat on a living room couch holding their 15-month-old daughter, Jacklyn, police Capt. Gary Fiedler said. The shot missed.

The couple’s other daughter, Julie, 4, was standing nearby, as were Yvone Kaiser’s two daughters from a previous marriage Crystle, 9, and Monique, 11. Her husband then left the room, and she called police.

Kaiser, 27, was being held in the Bergen County Jail Annex on Friday on $500,000 bail. He was charged with attempted murder, simple assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and possession of a firearm without a permit.

Teaneck Municipal Judge James E. Young also issued a temporary restraining order against Kaiser, barring him from going to the couple’s Alpine Drive home, and granted temporary custody of the children to Yvone Kaiser. As mandated in the new Domestic Violence Prevention Act, a hearing will be held in two weeks to determine whether the order should become permanent.

The incident began shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, when the self-employed transportation consultant closed his office, which is in the house. He sat next to his wife on their bed and asked her how much money they had. She took the money out of her purse and counted $2,200, Fiedler said.

“Impossible, it should be $3,200,” she told police he screamed, then slapped her. “You stole my hard-earned money. Where did you spend it?”

She then went into the living room, where her husband followed her with the gun.

Police later found the gun that they say was used in the shooting, along with empty shell casings and two other handguns. They also found ten $100 bills in the bedroom, but Fiedler said he did not know if that was the missing $1,000 that the couple were fighting over.

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