An Indianapolis man was arrested on Saturday for the murder of his kindergarten teacher wife after he allegedly confessed to police officers arriving on the scene.

Inside the home, officers found Amber Cooley, 26, with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene, Indianapolis Police said. Officers also found a baby, unharmed, inside.

They arrested her husband, 25-year-old Robert Cooley, without incident.

An affidavit said that Robert Cooley was leaving the home when officers arrived, wearing bloody clothes, the Indianapolis Star reported.

“I did something bad,” he said. “I need to go to jail.”

Body camera footage captured him saying, “I took my wife’s life,” the affidavit said.

Cooley told detectives after his arrest that he beat Amber Cooley and then shot her in the head. A witness told police that the couple had “ongoing domestic issues” and that they had argued the day before.

According to WISH, Amber Cooley was beaten so badly she was unrecognizable, and her throat was slit. Her parents told the station that she and her husband had been together for four or five years and that their baby was just five weeks old. They said there were red flags, but they never thought that Robert Cooley would kill his wife.

“He was verbally abusing her and started to spiral out of control a little shortly after the birth of her baby,” Stella Hart, Amber’s mother, said.

“He threatened me,” her father, Corey Morgan, said. “He tried to engage in a physical altercation with me.”

Hart said her daughter asked her for help with a petition for dissolution of the marriage the night before the murder.

“We think he tried to confront her and she told him something he didn’t want to hear,” Morgan said.

The parents said they will be adopting Audri, the infant.

Robert Cooley has been charged with murder. He’s being held without bond.

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