When United States Army Specialist Priscilla East showed up to her friend Specialist Dominique House’s Kentucky home to have dinner with her and her fiancée Specialist Christopher Hoch (photographed above), she knew she was escaping a potential deadly situation. Her estranged husband, Jeremy Demar, had been slapped with a restraining order for repeatedly stalking and threatening her life — while simultaneously asking for her to take him back.

Tragically, however, the judge who issued the control hadn’t made it permanent, and so an obsessive, violent and possessive Demar — without obstruction — successfully made it to House’s door that night, February 2, with East’s son in his parked car, and a gun in his hand.

And, despite courage from her fellow soldier, Hoch — who died defending her — she met the gruesome fate she predicted in a petition penned to a local court, just months earlier.

“I generally feel that my life is in danger and that the violence is escalating. He wants me to check in with him every hour at work, arguments are becoming more heated again in the past week. I feel like I am on constant guard.”

“[He] threatened that if he ever found out I was cheating on him he would take me out and put a bullet in my head.”

These are the dreadful, alleged details of the double-murder, via Army Times:

“We heard him rev the engine outside, and we just expected him to bang on the door, make some noise,” House said. “We never expected him to actually have a gun.”

House, Hoch and House’s brother watched Demar from the front bedroom window.

“You just see him pacing back and forth, and then you hearing him kicking the door,” House said.

Hoch grabbed a baseball bat, she said.

“Then we hear gunshots at the door, to weaken the lock,” she said. “He just came in.”

Hoch swung the bat and Demar shot him.

“Then he came after me, but his gun was empty,” House said. “So when he was reloading, my brother tackled him, and that’s when I ran out of the house.”

House ran to a neighbor’s to call 911.

“And then I just heard Priscilla scream, and then he left,” she said. “He just walked out of the house.”

The child was not hurt.

Hoch had been only been home four days after returning from a deployment in Iraq.

He had asked House to marry him the day before he was murdered.

“We had started to plan our wedding up in Michigan, and now I’m in Michigan planning his funeral,” said House.

According to police, Demar was charged with murder, murder-domestic violence, burglary and assault. He’s currently in custody at the Montgomery County Jail.