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Photo of: Alice Morrin (Nick Caito Fox 61)

By DAVID OWENS and CHRISTINE DEMPSEY The Hartford Courant

VERNON – In the final moments of her life, Alice Morrin text-messaged a friend, begging him to call Vernon police. Her husband James Morrin was armed with a shotgun and a large knife, she wrote, and she was frantic about the safety of her daughters.

“Help, call Vernon police,” she wrote in a text message sent at 11:50 p.m. Sunday. “Jim just dragged me in our room put loaded gun to my head. Hurry please he would hear me on the phone. I talked him down.” The friend, who requested anonymity, immediately called police.

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