Attorney for ex-Elk Grove Village cop facing murder charge calls situation 'an anomaly'

CINCINNATI - An Ohio judge has kept bond at $3 million for a former Elk Grove Village police officer who called 911 and reported: "I just shot and killed my wife."

Fifty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Hawkins pleaded not guilty Tuesday, a day after a Hamilton County grand jury indicted him on aggravated murder and murder counts. His attorney called the situation "an anomaly."

Hawkins surrendered at his home April 25. He told authorities 59-year-old Jo Ann Hawkins took money from their bank account and refused to talk with him before he shot her multiple times with a handgun.

Hawkins calls himself a public safety and security professional.

Elk Grove Village Police Chief Stephen Schmidt says Hawkins resigned in 1999 when the department he joined in 1990 began investigating a complaint that he used unnecessary force.