A woman has been accused of beating her husband to death with a flagpole in a luxury California gated community.

Vicky Kim, 65, was charged with murder after police found her husband bludgeoned at The Enclave, a neighborhood of rental condos in Palm Desert.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said deputies went to The Enclave shortly before 10 a.m., local time, last Friday on an “unknown trouble call.”

Upon arrival, deputies found someone with “traumatic injuries consistent with a physical assault,” and the person was pronounced dead, a press release issued Saturday read. Police are withholding the victim’s identity, citing the ongoing investigation.

Court records revealed that the victim was Kim’s husband and that she had inflicted great bodily harm on him using a flagpole, per SFGate. She was taken into custody and later booked into a local jail.

A spokesperson for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said that Kim has had several domestic violence cases against her that involve her husband.

“In January of this year, our office charged Ms. Kim with a felony, obtained criminal protective orders, and intended to aggressively prosecute her for her crimes against her husband,” spokesperson Molly Smith told SFGate.

Deputies went to an address in Palm Desert on January 20 for a domestic incident and found Kim’s husband with an injured nose, according to court records obtained by local outlet KESQ.

Kim allegedly admitted to a deputy that she hit him on the nose three times after an argument about finances.

“Despite our office’s clear objections, a judge resolved all of the defendant’s cases as misdemeanors, released her from custody, and terminated all protective orders that prosecutors worked hard to obtain,” Smith told KESQ.

Prosecutors filed five domestic violence cases against Kim from September 2025 to January 2026, according to the court records.