FAIRFIELD — After several cell phone calls with police, a man accused of shooting his estranged wife and her companion late Thursday turned himself in Sunday.

        Marcus J. Hayes, 40, is charged with two counts of felonious assault and one count each of aggravated burglary, domestic violence and violating a protection order. He is being held at the Butler County Jail and will appear at 9 a.m. today in Fairfield Municipal Court.

        “Once you build a rapport with someone and they realize you're just a regular person, too, and will treat them the way you want to be treated, it's all downhill from there,” Fairfield Police Detective Sandy Sears said.

        Mr. Hayes and Det. Sears began talking on their cellular telephones immediately following the Thursday night shooting at his wife's condominium complex. At first Mr. Hayes was upset, she said, but once she reassured him she wanted to help, he was cooperative. He surrendered to her at 12:45 p.m. Sunday at an undisclosed location.

“He picked up the phone and was very distraught about what happened,” Det. Sears said. “I told him we just wanted to make sure he was OK and talk to him. We stayed in fairly close contact over the next couple days. He talked to me anytime I called and once I got him calmed down, he said he would turn himself in, probably Sunday. He wanted to go to church.”

        Susan Thompson, 38, who was shot in the legs and buttocks, was listed in fair condition at Mercy Hospital Fairfield Sunday night. Her friend, Cephuse Cardwell, 53, of Hamilton, was shot in the face and was released from University Hospital earlier Sunday.

        Det. Sears said she told both shooting victims Sunday that Mr. Hayes was behind bars, and they were relieved. Mr. Hayes and Ms. Thompson had previously been married and divorced before remarrying about a month ago, Det. Sears said.

        Less than two hours before Thursday's shooting, Ms. Thompson was granted a protection order that required Mr. Hayes to stay away from Ms. Thompson, to have no contact with her and to vacate their West Pointe Pleasant Circle condominium.

        Police who served Mr. Hayes with the order said he cooperated and left the condominium after packing a bag of clothes.

        But just after 9 p.m. that evening, Mr. Hayes broke the sliding glass door to the condominium and chased Ms. Thompson and Mr. Cardwell outside before shooting them with a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun in the parking lot, police reports show.

        “That is a very dangerous time,” Det. Sears said. “These situations climax and they just feel like things are ending. You don't know what someone is going to do.”

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