Since the exact death date was not given, the date of a newspaper article was used.

4 newspaper articles

# 1 - - Published in Omaha World-Herald, January 31, 2007

SHOOTING VICTIMS PLANNED TO MOVE

ARGUMENTS BETWEEN JAIME LEE AND HER FATHER DROVE THEM OUT, HER MOTHER-IN-LAW SAYS By Jennifer Greff and Judith Nygren, World-Herald Staff Writers

Jaime Lee, her husband and children, who were killed early Sunday by Jaime’s father, used money from an income-tax return to pay for a hotel room last week, Jaime’s mother-in-law said.

Arguments between Jaime and her father, Richard “Dick” Wilkinson, had escalated to the point that the young family felt they had to leave Wilkinson’s house, Denise Edgerton said.

The Lees and the children were back at the house on Saturday, but were planning to move out for good this week, Edgerton said.

They didn’t get a chance.

Jaime, 26, her husband, Darrel “Jason” Lee, 35, and her children, 6-year-old Michael Wilkinson and 3-year-old Jacob Shinabargar, were shot to death early Sunday in the Wilkinson home at 12410 Westwood Lane. After killing them in one bedroom, Wilkinson went to another bedroom and fatally shot himself.

Funeral services for Darrell “Jason” Lee are set for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Campbell Aman Funeral Home, 444 S. 17th St., in Blair, Neb. Services for the others are pending with Heafey-Heafey-Hoffman-Dworak-Cutler Funeral Home in Omaha.

A neighbor of Wilkinson’s, Nathan Warnock, said the Lees recently had bought a blue 1987 Chevrolet Astro van in anticipation of a move out of the house. License plates for the van were issued last Thursday, according to the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.

“Jason was trying to change his life,” Warnock said. “I saw that. He was trying hard to get his family to a place where they could be successful.”

Wilkinson’s longtime friend and boarder, Dennis Hanson, also had moved out of the house last week. Hanson said the arguments between Wilkinson and Jaime Lee were too much to take.

Hanson often heard the arguments, but he also heard Wilkinson interact with his wife, Linda. Every morning, Wilkinson told his wife, “I love you,” and every night when Wilkinson got home from work, he said, “I’m home, honey.”

Linda Wilkinson is a certified nurse’s aide. Police went to Omaha Supportive Living on 38th Avenue near the University of Nebraska Medical Center Sunday morning to notify her of the shootings. But they were told that she hadn’t worked at the facility for several months.

SHOOTINGS: SLAIN FAMILY WAS PLANNING TO MOVE OUT OF HOUSE

Her former boss, Dave Campbell, said today that Linda was a good employee, but she needed more hours than he had available at the time. Linda dispensed medicine and wanted only one shift, midnight to 8 a.m. She worked two to three days a week before moving on to other jobs, Campbell said.

Both she and Jaime applied at Omaha Supportive Living last year. Campbell said Linda was hired because he thought the facility’s older clients could relate to her. Linda regularly asked Campbell if he had any opening for her daughter because she needed the work. Linda didn’t say much more about her family. When she did talk about home, Campbell said, it was about the grandchildren. She loved being a grandmother, Campbell said.

He described Linda as reserved. She was a good listener on the night shift, but didn’t talk a lot about herself, he said.

Campbell said he is unaware of anyone at his facility talking to Linda since the weekend tragedy. But all are eager to reach out and help her, he said. She helped the people at his facility, he said, and now they want to help her.

Hanson said Linda often tried to intervene in the arguments between her husband and daughter. Hanson had known the couple for years. He was Wilkinson’s best man when he married Linda and Wilkinson was Hanson’s best man.

Hanson saw Richard Wilkinson almost every day when he got home from work but often kept to himself in the basement. Wilkinson sometimes fell asleep watching television at night, and Hanson would accidentally wake him as he left for work in the wee hours of the morning.

Wilkinson also wouldn’t put up with his grandsons running around the house, Hanson said. Wilkinson would ask Jaime to put them in a bedroom if the boys got too rambunctious, Hanson said.

Hanson said he took showers in the upstairs bathroom, and sometimes he would return downstairs and find that someone had rifled through his things. He even purchased a safe for his room to keep his valuables locked up, he said.

Wilkinson would accuse Jaime of stealing the items, Hanson said. That often led to angry arguments, he said.

Despite the tensions between father and daughter, Jaime had lived with her parents for several years at different points in her adult life.

She had lived there with her first husband, Rickie Shinabargar. She moved out for a while before returning about a year ago with her new husband, Darrell lee. They married while he was in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting his then-girlfriend’s 7-year-old daughter.

World-Herald Staff writers Kevin Cole and Lynn Safranek contributed to this report.

# 2 - - PRIVATE SERVICES HELD FOR KILLER, THREE VICTIMS by Judith Nygren, World-Herald Staff Writer

Private funeral services for Richard “Dick” Wilkinson and three of the people he killed - - his daughter, Jaime Lee and her two sons - - were held today.

Services for another of Wilkinson’s slaying victims, Darrell “Jason” Lee, Jaime’s 35-year-old husband, are set for Friday.

Wilkinson’s wife, Linda, and other family members issued a statement Wednesday thanking people for their expressions of sympathy.

Services for Richard, 62, Jaime Lee, 26, and Jaime’s two children, Michael, 6, and Jacob, 3, were held this morning at Heafey-Heafey-Hoffmann Dworak-Cutler’s chapel at 78th Street and West Center Road.

The last name listed on Michael’s birth certificate is Wilkinson, but in the family’s statement, his last name was listed as Shinabargar, like his younger brother.

Darrell Lee’s funeral is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Campbell Aman Funeral Home, 444 S. 17th St. in Blair, Neb.

The Lees lived with the Wilkinsons in the Wilkinsons’ southwest Omaha home, where relations were strained by frequent arguments between daughter and father. Many of the arguments centered on accusations that Jaime and her husband stole from the Wilkinsons and a family friend living in the house, the friend said.

The discord culminated early Sunday, when Richard Wilkinson fatally shot Jaime, Darrell, Michael and Jacob before fatally shooting himself.

Linda Wilkinson, a certified nurse’s aide who often worked nights, was not home at the time.

The Wilkinson and Shinabargar families suggest that memorials go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation or Omaha’s Oak Valley Elementary School, where Michael was in kindergarten.

# 3 - - from The Enterprise, February 2, 2007

D. JASON LEE, 35

Funeral services for D. Jason Lee, 35, of Omaha, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home in Blair. Burial will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Darrell Jason Lee was born Feb. 25, 1971, in Omaha.

He is survived by his father and stepmother, Darrell D. and Christine Lee of Blair; mother, Denise Edgerton of Florence, S. C.; a son; a daughter; two brothers, David Lee of Omaha and Chris Lee of Blair; two sisters, Misty Lee of Blair and Michelle Stelling of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and his grandmothers, Betty Lee of Ava, Mo., and Grace Wallace of Omaha.

# 4 - - Omaha World-Herald, February 1, 2007

LEE - - Darrell Jason, age 35, Omaha, NE. Survived by father and step mother, Darrell and Christine Lee of Blair; mother, Denise Edgerton, Florence, SC; 1 son, 1 daughter; 2 brothers, David Lee, Omaha; Chris Lee, Blair; 2 sisters, Misty Lee, Blair and Michelle Stelling, Scottsdale, AZ; and grandmothers, Betty Lee, Ava, Mo; and Grace Wallace, Omaha.

SERVICES 10:30 am Friday, Campbell-Aman Funeral Home in Blair. Burial Blair Cemetery. VISITATION 6-8 PM Thursday.

CAMPBELL-AMAN FUNERAL HOME, Blair, NE 402-426-2191