By Dan Klepal
Enquirer staff writer

Cincinnati Police investigators say the fatal shooting of Daniel Buie just three hours after he shot and killed his 32-year-old wife, Kim, in Sayler Park Sept. 4 is not related to the earlier shooting.

Antwuan Coleman, a 19-year-old from the West End, has been charged with killing Daniel Buie and is being held on $100,000 bond.

The two shootings are just a bizarre coincidence, police say, and the latest turn in a strange case.

Cincinnati Police Sgt. Robert Liston, the city's lead investigator in the shootings, said Daniel Buie shot his wife four times about 10:30 p.m. Sept. 4 before speeding off in her Jeep.

Before she died, she told authorities her husband shot her.

Some three hours later, Buie met Coleman in Mount Auburn - an encounter that would leave Buie dead with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Liston, who interviewed Coleman Thursday, said an argument apparently led Coleman to shoot Daniel Buie.

"We believe it was over a gun," Liston said of the argument. "It's something I've never seen before. It would be more understandable if the person who shot (Daniel) Buie knew his wife and was upset about that.

"But the shootings were unrelated incidents."

Police originally thought Daniel Buie committed suicide. They found his lifeless body with a bullet wound to the chest and clutching a .22-caliber Ruger pistol.

But the autopsy proved Daniel Buie's wound was not self-inflicted. The slug in his chest was a much larger caliber than the gun he held.

And the gunpowder on his shirt and abrasions on his skin were not as pronounced as they should have been for a suicide victim - proving the fatal shot came from farther away than would have been possible if Buie had pulled the trigger on himself.

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