COLUMBUS — A former Ashland dentist and his wife were shot multiple times inside their Weinland Park residence at the end of December.
According to autopsy reports from the Franklin County Coroner’s Office, Spencer Tepe, 37, and Monique Tepe, 39, were shot a total of 16 times. Ashland Source obtained the reports through the Franklin County Coroner’s Office on Wednesday afternoon.
The husband and wife were found shot to death in their North 4th Street home in Columbus on the morning of Dec. 30, according to a previous press release from the Columbus Division of Police. The Tepe’s two small children, ages 1 and 4, were found unharmed in the residence.
Spencer Tepe had worked at Stone Creek Dental in Ashland before recently transferring to Columbus, where he was employed at Athens Dental Depot.
Spencer Tepe was shot seven times, according to the reports. Those seven shots included three to his trunk, two to his bilateral upper extremities and one shot each to his neck and head.
Monique Tepe suffered nine bullet wounds, including three in the chest, two to her left humeral region and one shot each to her right zygomatic region, lateral right trunk, right forearm and right hand. Additional injuries listed include abrasions on her chest and left forearm/elbow and a left calf contusion.
The husband and wife were pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. on Dec. 30 by Columbus fire medics, according to the coroner’s reports. Both deaths were ruled homicides in the reports.
McKee remains in jail without bond
According to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois, Michael McKee, 39, was charged with two counts of murder and booked just before noon on Jan 10 in connection to the murders. McKee is the ex-husband of Monique Tepe.
Detectives identified McKee as a suspect through Columbus neighborhood surveillance and tracked his vehicle to Rockford, Ill. located about 79 miles northwest of Chicago, court documents showed.
On Jan. 14, Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant revealed authorities believed they had found the gun used in the Dec. 30 murders. Police searched McKee’s Chicago condo and found additional evidence, including multiple firearms, Bryant said previously.
One of those weapons was matched through ballistic evidence from the homicide scene, according to previous reporting from the Columbus Dispatch.
McKee was recently extradited from Illinois and is now in jail in Columbus, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. He was indicted on Jan. 16 on four counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated burglary, according to records from the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.
McKee pleaded not guilty to all five counts on Jan. 23. He remains in custody without bail at the Franklin County jail. As of Wednesday, no other court appearances have been scheduled on McKee’s case docket.