FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 46-year-old Coral Springs woman was sentenced to spend the next two decades behind bars after pleading no contest to second-degree murder in the 2024 shooting death of her husband, according to court records obtained by Local 10 News on Monday.
Coral Springs police said Denise Nicole Malcolm shot and killed Rohan Malcolm, 52, at their home in the 10500 block of Northwest 43rd Street over infidelity issues on Aug. 31, 2024.
She told investigators that she was “at her wits’ end with his lies and deceit” and police said she shot her husband following an argument stemming from him “unexpectedly announc(ing) that he was leaving to go to Port Saint Lucie with his friends” after the two had come back from a trip to buy supplies for a planned Labor Day barbecue.
Authorities said that after Denise Malcolm shot her husband multiple times, one of their 14-year-old twin sons saw his father bleeding on the floor of his bedroom, leading the teen to call 911.
Rohan Malcolm was alive at the time and clutching his shoulder, but Denise Malcolm would tell detectives she fired one final gunshot, killing him as officers arrived, an arrest report states.
The report states that she had planned on killing herself, but as her husband bled on the floor, he “said something to her that made her stop her thoughts of suicide and shoot him for a final time.”
Records show Denise Malcolm entered the no-contest plea Wednesday and received a 21-year sentence with credit for 285 days served in jail.
As of Monday, Malcolm remained in the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach.
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