A Cañon City stay-at-home mother of three who called her husband her “hero” is in jail, accused of fatally shooting him in the chest, authorities said.
Robin Carole Gall was being held Tuesday on a $50,000 bond for investigation of second-degree murder in the death of Brent Thomas Gall, 40, authorities said.
Fremont County sheriff’s deputies went to the Gall home at 9:52 p.m. Monday in answer to a domestic violence call, said Andrea Cooper, sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Brent Gall, a federal prison employee and bass guitar player in a local rock band, was found dead in the home with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Robin Gall is being held in the Fremont County Detention Center.
“I’m just your typical stay-at-home mom and housewife,” Robin Gall said on her MySpace page. “I like to crochet a lot and I volunteer for the Warm the World Foundation. We make blankets for our troops and orphaned children.”
On her site, she said that her husband and her three daughters were her heroes and that she loved to ride motorcycles.
Brent Gall had been a guard and computer programmer at ADX Maximum Security Facility, or Supermax, in Florence. In 2003, he was acquitted in federal court of participating with a group of correctional officers nicknamed the “cowboys,” who were accused of beating up federal prisoners. Three of the guards were convicted.
“He was a pretty mild-mannered guy,” said Dan Sears, Brent Gall’s defense attorney in the federal case.
Brent Gall was in a Cañon City rock band called the Side Project that had just recorded a live CD Friday. The band, which often rehearsed in the garage of the Galls’ house, played at motorcycle rallies and in bars.
“The whole thing is shocking to me,” said Rich Bosisio, a band member. “I didn’t see this coming.”
Nan Sullivan, founder of Warm the World, said Robin Gall crocheted beautiful blankets but would never come to a warehouse where other volunteers met because she didn’t think her husband would approve.
“She seemed very controlled by him,” Sullivan said. “She wouldn’t do anything without the approval of her husband.”
On her site, Robin Gall wrote that she met her husband in Yokosuka, Japan, when both of them were enlisted in the Navy during the Persian Gulf War.
“I have profound respect for anyone in the military,” she wrote on her Web page.
According to Cooper, there had not been any previous calls to the Sheriff’s Office from the home.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
