The facts of this murder case, reported from Millington, TN in the Memphis Commercial Appeal just keep getting better and better:
A Millington woman who killed her husband with a .22-caliber rifle while he made doughnut circles in his pickup truck was sentenced today to three years of probation. …
She was charged with second-degree murder for killing husband Gary Abbott, 43, on July 23, 2005, behind their home at 9401 Riverbluff west of Millington.
Authorities initially believed that Abbott died in a violent crash when his truck hit a piece of farm machinery and burst into flames.
When a .22-caliber bullet was found in his head during an autopsy, however, Linda Abbott admitted firing one rifle shot in the air and a second shot that she said was an accidental discharge.
Authorities said the shot traveled some 150 feet across a field behind the house, struck Gary Abbott in the head and caused the truck to crash.
Linda Abbott testified in trial that her husband sometimes drove in circles in the field when he was angry or had been drinking. His blood alcohol was .26.
She told a jury the shooting was an accident, that she was trying to get his attention to come to dinner and that she had no reason to intentionally shoot him.
She’s a pretty good shot, isn’t she? And he got a warning shot and everything. I don’t ever want Mrs. Abbott to feel the need to get my attention.
“I don’t ever want Mrs Abbott to feel the need to get my attention.” Hehehehehaw…Horrible but so damn funny. I was expecting to read it was a family tradition going back generations.
“Linda Abbott testified in trial that her husband sometimes drove in circles in the field when he was angry…”
I must admit that it really is pretty satisfying.
fish-you must mean it’s pretty satisfying until/unless you’re shot at.
Correct! Being shot at would ruin the therapeutic value.
I feel a little guilty for finding it funny under the circumstances but the very idea of someone, suffering from a fit of anger, doing doughnuts in the field out back to calm themselves is just funny, no two ways around it.
And here I thought Krispy Kremes were the doughnuts folks resort to for calming . . .
My late father always said women didn’t have to aim — that they just have to pull the trigger, after which bullets find their way into men.