Yves Romain, 30, fatally shot his 23-year-old girlfriend Lovemy Mathurin before turning the gun on himself on Oct. 8, Delray Beach police said.

DELRAY BEACH — Yves Romain was to the point.

"I just shot my girl," he calmly told a 911 dispatcher the morning of Oct. 8.

"What did you do?" the dispatcher asked.

The Lyft driver fatally wounded his 23-year-old girlfriend Lovemy Mathurin that morning before turning the gun on himself, Delray Beach police told reporters later that day from outside an apartment complex on Auburn Avenue.

Shortly before 8:30 a.m. the dispatcher asked a composed Romain for clarification: "You shot your girlfriend?"

"Yes."

"With a gun?"

The audio recording of the 911 call, released Thursday, sounds as if the 30-year-old Romain tells the dispatcher that Mathurin cheated on him. However, screams captured on the recording muffle what he said.

The dispatcher questioned Romain about the yelling, asking whether it was his girlfriend she heard.

"That’s my baby," Romain replied.

Where was his girlfriend? On the floor, Romain explained. She was dead.

"She’s dead?" the dispatcher replied.

She asked for the man’s name. He told her he was going to shoot himself.

"You’re going to do what?" the dispatcher said. He repeated himself.

"No, no, don’t shoot yourself. You have a baby," the dispatcher pleaded.

"Oh my God, he hung up."

For 90 minutes, Delray Beach police waited outside of the apartment, east of Interstate 95 and north of Southwest 10th Street, unsure what was happening inside.

When they did enter the home, both Mathurin and Romain were dead. The couple’s 10-month-old son was sitting in a car seat in another room, police said. He was unharmed.

Their 3-year-old was not home at the time of the shootings, police said. Both boys now are staying with relatives.

"It’s just a huge tragedy," a relative, who declined to speak further about the incident, said Thursday.

Mathurin’s killing marks at least the seventh incident of someone killing a current or former partner this year in Palm Beach County, according to a Palm Beach Post database.

If you or someone you know is in emotional crisis or distress, call the confidential National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. A free text message service also is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Text 741-741 to be connected with a trained crisis counselor.

A trained advocate from Palm Beach County Victim Services also is available to provide support. You can call the 24-hour helpline at 561-833-7273 or toll free at 866-891-7273. More information is available online at www.pbcgov.org/publicsafety/victimservices.

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