Exclusive | Ex-top San Francisco cop gushed about split from possessive husband weeks before slaughter

San Francisco’s former deputy police chief was looking forward to a fresh start after deciding to divorce her husband — just two weeks before he shot her and their daughter dead in their California home, a close friend has told the California Post.Ann Mannix, 65, and her daughter Katie, 24, were killed by retired police sergeant Kevin Mannix, 68, at their Marin County home Sunday night before he turned the gun on himself.Ann’s friend, local attorney Marie Hurabiell, said he was at a party with her just two weeks ago and she was aglow following her split from Kevin.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story “She was in a great place, she did tell me she was getting divorced, and it was the best thing and she was looking forward to the future,” Hurabiell told The Post.She said she didn’t know her husband well, but knew the relationship had been in a bad place for awhile.She claimed Kevin was a possessive ex who did not want her to move on.“She told me, as she was getting divorced, that she was so happy.”Hurabiell remembered her friend as “warm, funny” and a “phenomenal” leader who volunteered her time to public safety causes since retiring from SFPD in 2021, educating the community on police work.The ex-cop, who was one of relatively few women when she joined the force in the 1980s, was renowned as a “trailblazer” for women in the department, the police union boss said in a statement.It’s not the only tragedy to hit SFPD in recent years.

40-year-old officer Chris Morris died by suicide in his home in 2022 while under criminal investigation, and another officer, Rene Vig Nielsen, likewise took his life in 2024.“This is heartbreaking news.Suicide, in all its devastating forms, has tragically become woven into the fabric of SFPD,” one forme...