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Erica Ostensen
Erica Ostensen
Kyle Hicke
JANESVILLE — Kyle E. Hicke was up all night smoking marijuana, deeply depressed and heartbroken the morning he is suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend.
He began having morbid thoughts.
He watched a TV show about a man scaring his cheating girlfriend with a gun.
He then grabbed a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol in his father’s closet.
He climbed into his father’s pickup truck.
He decided to visit his ex-girlfriend at her Fourth Ward home.
Hicke wanted to talk to Erica M. Ostenson, say goodbye, make peace and possibly have sex.
When he arrived, she rejected him.
“I have fallen out of love with you, and I am in love with my new boyfriend,” Ostenson told Hicke.
Those are among the details included in a criminal complaint filed against Hicke in Rock County Court on Thursday.
According to the criminal complaint:
Hicke snapped.
He repeatedly punched Ostenson in the face.
Ostenson yelled at her 5-year-old son to call 911.
Hicke “freaked out.”
He grabbed the gun.
He shot her at 9:16 a.m.
He doesn’t know how many times.
He pulled the trigger until it stopped.
“I wanted her to feel my pain,” Hicke later told police.
He then drove away.
The boy ran and pounded on the door of the upstairs neighbor.
The neighbor used to live with Ostenson.
She moved out because she was tired of Ostenson and Hicke fighting.
Hicke and Ostenson had dated for five years.
They had lived together for three years and six months.
Hicke was released from jail March 29.
He visited Ostenson that day.
She ended their relationship. The two argued.
Hicke later bought Ostenson groceries and tobacco in an attempt to reconcile.
But Ostenson wanted nothing to do with him.
It broke Hicke’s heart.
He became angry.
He later found Ostenson’s diary.
He read that she wanted to be with another man.
He caught her writing her new boyfriend.
It made him more upset.
They argued again.
Hicke spit in Ostenson’s face.
After the shooting, four people were standing outside the home.
Ostenson was lying outside on the stairs.
She had no pulse.
Four shell casings were nearby.
Ostenson was taken to Mercy Hospital.
While on the run, Hicke thought about hiding at a friend’s house in Dixon, Ill.
He then saw police cars behind him on Highway 51.
A high-speed chase ensued through Janesville and Beloit.
Hicke, 37, of 108 Forest Lake Drive, Milton, was arrested after police cars rammed his vehicle.
Ostenson, 25, of 412 1/2 S. Academy St., Janesville, died of gunshot wounds to her chest.
Hicke appeared in court Thursday wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, tattoos up and down his arms.
He is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless endangerment, possession of a firearm by a felon and attempting to flee or elude an officer.
He faces up to life in prison.
Hicke was ordered held in the Rock County Jail on $1 million cash bail.
He is scheduled to be in court Tuesday for an adjourned initial appearance.