San Diego, CALIFORNIA

School employee to get 75 years for murdering his estranged wife.

March 13, 2008 - Curtis Allen Brown, 44, a locker room attendant and baseball coach for San Diego Schools, pleaded guilty to to first-degree murder and the use of a revolver in the death of his estranged wife.

Brown also admitted that he had a robbery conviction from 1991. [TT - Those background checks are great, aren't they?]

Brown was out of jail for beating his wife when he kidnapped her at gunpoint and shot her four or five times. She had a restraining order out on him. He shot himself after he killed his wife. Officers shot him three times. He was arraigned in the hospital.

In return for the guilty pleas, prosecutors dismissed special circumstance allegations of murder during a burglary and murder during a kidnapping that could have led to the death penalty. He will be sentenced to 75 years to life in prison on April 11.