Kevin Grasha

kgrasha@enquirer.com

A 56-year-old man shot his girlfriend multiple times Wednesday at her Blue Ash home and then called 911, saying he wanted police to shoot him, according to court documents.

Joseph K. Smith, of Blue Ash, is charged with murder and is being held without bond at the Hamilton County jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning.

The shooting happened at the woman's house on Classic Drive. Police have not released her name.

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Blue Ash police said in an affidavit that Smith called 911, saying "he had shot his girlfriend and he wanted the police to shoot him."

"I killed my girlfriend," he told a dispatcher, according to a recording of the call released overnight.

He later told the operator "I don't want to live!"

Hamilton County sheriff's deputies assisted Blue Ash police in responding to the home, along with a SWAT team. Smith came out of the home without incident.

Police said they went inside and found the woman dead and recovered a handgun.

After he surrendered to officers, Smith "made several utterances that he had shot a woman several times and he didn't deserve to live," the affidavit states.

Enquirer media partner Fox19 contributed to this report.