Wife Injured in Today’s Double Shooting Was Denied Restraining Order

At 7:48 AM this morning, the was dispatched to 19 Skiffs Lane for a man pointing a gun at a woman.  The Island’s Tactical Response Team was requested to respond.

While in route to the scene, the police department was advised that the female was shot and that the man was dying.  Dispatch then advised both parties had been shot.  Two ambulances were called to the scene.

A team of four officers went into the house and found the parties upstairs in the residence.  The woman was transported to the for treatment of a gunshot wound and the male died at the scene.

The Boston Globe reported today that Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said, Bloomquist, “Was able to make a phone call to 911 on her cellphone.” He also said she had a small-caliber handgun “available” to her.”

According to the Globe, Bloomquist’s affidavit in support of her request for a restraining order said that her estranged husband, who was a pilot, could easily fly onto the island.

Both Bloomquists were licensed to carry guns.

In the affidavit, Bloomquist wrote, “I fear he may be volatile and may act out impulsively out of his sense of entitlement.’’

Bloomquist filed for divorce last July, but agreed to wait to go forward until their Harvard, MA home was sold. After the sale went through in October, she moved full-time to West Tisbury and went forward with the divorce.

The Globe reported that, “By March 1, two things had happened, she wrote. Her estranged husband was accusing her of being “disloyal’’ and having “abandoned’’ him – and she had met someone else she was romantically interested in.”

Bloomquist’s husband also claimed he had legal right to live in their home on Skiffs Lane where she was living and insisted on her telling him about who she was having “any other relationship’’ with.

According to the Vineyard Gazette, West Tisbury police Sgt. Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter 3rd, said that, “The appropriate paper work was filled out, Mr. Manter said, but on-call judge Robert Kane denied issuing the order.”

The Globe stated, “Judge Kane did not issue the order because Mrs. Bloomquist did not meet the requirements and was in no immediate threat of injury.’’

The Martha’s Vineyard Times reported that this morning, “Mr. Bloomquist cut the telephone wire to the house and broke in the door, armed with a shotgun, according to one person with knowledge of the investigation. He then shot his wife in the leg and she returned fire with a pistol, killing him.”

The Gazette reported that Mrs. Bloomquist was rushed to the hospital this morning after sustaining gunshot wounds to her torso. As of this afternoon, she was listed in stable condition at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Mr. Bloomquist’s body will be transported to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy.

The West Tisbury police, state police detectives assigned to the district attorney’s office, state police crime scene services and the medical examiner’s office will continue to investigate the matter and more information may be released early next week from the district attorney’s office.