911 call tells of "emergency" at home where former MLB player, girlfriend soon found dead

Darryl and Ursaline Hamilton at the Children's Museum Gala Saturday Oct. 03,2009. (Dave Rossman/For the Chronicle) Darryl and Ursaline Hamilton at the Children's Museum Gala Saturday Oct. 03,2009. (Dave Rossman/For the Chronicle) Photo: Dave Rossman, Freelance Photo: Dave Rossman, Freelance Image 1 of / 26 Caption Close 911 call tells of "emergency" at home where former MLB player, girlfriend soon found dead 1 / 26 Back to Gallery

The 911 call sending Pearland police to a home where they found former Major League Baseball player and MLB Network analyst Darryl Hamilton and his ex-girlfriend dead had warned of an "emergency" situation.

The caller was the woman's ex-husband, Rohaven Richards, who described Monica Jordan to emergency operators as distraught.

"She was calling me crying and desperate," Richards is heard saying on the tape, also telling the call taker that he was on his way to Jordan's home and that whatever was happening involved Hamilton.

Police are still investigating the deaths, which occurred on Father's Day, but have said that Jordan shot Hamilton several times before shooting herself. The couple's 13-month-old boy was in the house, in the 11500 block of Island Breeze, at the time of the shootings. He was not injured.

On Tuesday, police released a few more details of their investigation into the shootings, including the 911 call placed by Richards. In the recording, Richards said Jordan asked him to come over and to call police to come and get the child. He also said he did not know if a weapon was in the house.

Hamilton's attorney, Gary Zimmerman, said Tuesday the couple had broken up earlier this year, around February, but saw each other regularly when exchanging the infant. He said both Jordan and Hamilton wanted to establish Hamilton's paternity.

On Friday, Hamilton and Jordan had finalized a custody agreement over their son, guaranteeing Hamilton visitation rights to the child every other weekend and one day during each week, Zimmerman said.

He said Jordan was supposed to return the infant to Jordan on Sunday as per the agreement signed by a judge.

Zimmerman said the legal arrangement was a routine measure establishing Hamilton's paternity, since the couple was unwed, and there was no "custody fight."

"Nothing that would prompt someone to shoot somebody and kill herself," Zimmerman said. "It makes no sense."

That infant was taken into the custody of Child Protective Services on Sunday after Hamilton and Jordan were found dead.

A revolver was recovered at the home, police said Tuesday.

Both Hamilton, who spent 13 years as a baseball player, and Jordan, an attorney, had other children.

Jordan pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony arson after she burned her then-husband's house to the ground after she believed he had cheated on her, officials said.

Police made one prior visit to the Island Breeze home, to investigate a theft of an iPad. Hamilton was not mentioned in the police report.