A 39-year-old Kingfisher man died last week from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to a Kingfisher Police Department report.

Jeffrey Earl Skinner Jr. was pronounced dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital Kingfisher where he was transported by Kingfisher EMS from his residence at 711 W. Zellars Ave., late Monday afternoon, Aug. 12.

Police were dispatched to Skinner’s residence shortly after 4 p.m. when a third party called 911 at the request of Kaycie Graves, 37, who was identified in the police report as Skinner’s common law wife.

Graves told investigating KPD Officer Aaron Schlegel that she and Skinner had been arguing in their bedroom and she had gone into the adjoining bathroom to brush her teeth, according to the report.

Skinner followed her into the bathroom and she started to walk out and then heard a gunshot and felt something fly past her, Graves told police. She said she thought Skinner was shooting at her so she ran out of the room and yelled at her children to get out of the house, according to the report.

She told police when they arrived that she hadn’t gone back into the bathroom and didn’t know if Skinner was shooting at her or had shot himself.

When Schlegel and fellow officer Jason East went inside, they first saw a 9-millimeter Ruger shell casing on the floor next to a closet doorway and then saw Skinner lying facedown on the floor, partially over the raised front edge of the shower, with a black semiautomatic pistol at his feet, according to the report.

Based on evidence at the scene, police surmised thed bullet apparently had gone through the shower and the wall behind and ricocheted off a metal tent frame in the bedroom on the other side of the wall before falling to the floor at the foot of a mattress, where it was found, according to the report.

Kingfisher EMS arrived and began attempting to resuscitate Skinner, continuing to do so as he was transported to the hospital, but were unable to revive him, according to the police report.

After Skinner was moved, police found a gun holster that apparently had been lying under his body.

Police asked Graves later to draw a diagram of where she was positioned when she heard the gunshot and Schlegel surmised in his report that she would have been standing in the same area where the bullet ricocheted, which may be what she said she felt fly by her.

Police collected evidence at the scene, including a number of bottles of prescription drugs and marijuana plants belonging to Skinner, who had a medical marijuana card.

Skinner’s body was transported from the hospital to the medical examiner’s office for forensic examination, according to the report.