NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A woman's ex-husband walked into the bingo hall where she worked, shot and killed her and then fatally shot himself, apparently jealous over her impending marriage, police said Thursday.
The woman, Sandra Boucher, 47, was identified by her son, Jim, as a sister of singer Vic Damone.
About 30 people were inside Skylake Mall Bingo Hall about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday when Avrum Cohen, 42, asked his ex-wife to step outside.
Police were told Cohen wanted Boucher, who was scheduled to marry another man at the end of January, to marry him again. Police said they talked for a few minutes before the shooting.
'I heard the lady scream something like 'Oh, no' and then I heard the shots,' said Bennett Harris, a salesman at Burt's Jewelers, near the bingo hall.
'I didn't see her. I saw him firing more shots at an angle toward the ground, about five or six of them.'
Harris said that about half an hour before the shooting, Boucher went into the jewelry store to have a pair of earrings fixed.
'She said she was very happy because she was going to be married,' he said. 'It's so sad.'
The president of the bingo hall, Stephen Paskind, said Boucher and Cohen worked there as volunteers for several years.
Jim Boucher, 25, said his mother was Damone's sister and she had five children from a previous marriage.
Friends and family members said Cohen had two children from a previous marriage.
Family members said the couple was first married 10 years ago, and records show they filed for divorce in 1980. The remarried in January 1986 and divorced Aug. 17, 1987.
