The wife of a Cincinnati man, whose Sunday death is being investigated by the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and Appanoose County Sheriff’s Office, denied there was any domestic abuse involved.

Casey Opperman said a TV report was wrong when quoting neighbors as saying there was possible domestic abuse involved. She said they may have been referring to an altercation she had with another woman at the Numa Station Saturday that left her with a fractured nose.

According to the Appanoose County Sheriff’s Office, they received a 911 call at approximately 3:30 a.m. Sunday from Opperman saying her husband had committed suicide.

An autopsy performed Monday by the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office determined Davis Tyler Opperman’s death was caused by a single gun shot wound to the head. The official manner of death has not yet been determined.

Casey Opperman said that during the night leading up to her husband’s death, they had been at the Numa Station. It was there that she was hit by another woman.

“It was not that big of deal,” she said.

The couple then went to Rocko’s Cantina. From there, they went to the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center - Centerville, where she was treated and released at approximately 2:30 a.m. Sunday.

“He would never, ever harm me,” she said Wednesday of her husband. “Tyler was a wonderful husband and loved his family and friends and me very much.”

Opperman said she had no comment about the death of her first husband, Brad Tuttle. “This isn’t about Brad,“ she said.

DCI looks at Tuttle death

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, which investigated the Tuttle death, said the DCI requested the records dealing with Tuttle’s death, which they supplied this week.

A death certificate lists Tuttle’s death as suicide from a gunshot wound to the head at his Green City, Mo., residence July 1, 2006.  The death occurred at approximately 2:40 p.m.

That death was also investigated by the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Earlier in the week, Sullivan County Sheriff Bill Hayes said that he was satisfied that Tuttle’s death had been a suicide. He added they would reopen the case if new information warranted it.