



BONNEY LAKE, Wash. -- Authorities say David Annas killed his wife Regina and then himself just hours after deputies had served him with a protection order.



In the order, his wife revealed she wanted a divorce.



Neighbor Steven Deen says David seemed like guy with a big heart.



A stark contrast to how the 40 year-old is described in the protective order, “He is nice one minute and then as soon as I say I am ready to move on he flips out and gets very mean when he does this I get very fearful that he is going to hurt me.”



“He didn’t want to let her go,” said Regina’s friend Georgia Warner.



A week before the murder-suicide, Warner says David came to her house looking for Regina begging her to come home.



“At the end when he wasn’t getting his way he was getting angry, I wouldn’t let her go alone with him I tried to defuse the situation tried to stay calm,” Warner said.



Warner hoped the protective order would make a difference but in some cases experts say it can lead to more danger.



“When they get that no contact order he is losing power and control that’s what puts him in a rage,” said Lew Cox with Violent Crime Victim Services.



Cox says it’s important to have a safety plan in place before filing a protective order.



“She could have perhaps went somewhere where he couldn’t have found her and perhaps in a few days he would have cooled down from his rage,” Cox said.



He says victims should reach out to domestic violence agencies for advice because a piece of paper is no guarantee of safety.



And in Regina’s case it wasn’t enough to save her life.



“He came back it’s a piece of paper it doesn’t stop,” Warner said.



The husband also filed a protective order against the wife but a judge did not grant it.



A source tells Q13 FOX News that Regina’s girlfriend was also shot during the incident. Her condition was unknown as of Monday evening.