Posted on 01/11/2018 6:03:36 PM PST by simpson96
An Arizona woman was arrested Tuesday after she fatally shot her husband in the head and then spent two days running errands around the state, including praying at church, according to officials.
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that Katherine Herbert, 57, walked into the sheriff's office on Tuesday and confessed she shot and killed her husband, 58-year-old James Herbert, in their home in Peeples Valley, about 95 miles northwest of Phoenix after an argument on Saturday.
Herbert told deputies her husband began arguing with her after she came home from work, and that her husband was being aggressive toward her, according to the sheriff's office.
The 57-year-old said she grabbed a loaded shotgun and pointed it at her husband while telling him to stop. Herbert then claimed her husband raised a handgun so she fired a shotgun, according to the sheriff's office.
Herbert said she then "panicked" and decided to drive to the town of Snowflake nearly 240 miles away where she stopped at a church and prayed, police said.
The sheriff's office said Herbert then spent the follow day cleaning the home, and on Monday went out to run errands before telling the couple's daughter about the fatal shooting.
Her daughter then took her to the sheriff's office on Tuesday to report the shooting, according to police. The 57-year-old has been booked on one charge of first-degree murder and is currently at a local jail.
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She’s 57 so I guess she can’t claim PMS made her do it.
So she’ll claim battered woman syndrome.
It’s gotta work better than the truth.
Paging, Gloria Allred!
This guy was an idiot. As far as I know, standing in front of a shotgun and making an obvious aggressive action is suicidal. Did they find all the pieces?
rwood
Probably not with a shotgun. Overkill. And the pattern will tell about that.
rwood
ditto
and the world gives a huge sigh of relief that you didn't marry...Thank the Lord!
The next RAT convention site?
Not anywhere near as much as the relief I feel at having been spared having to endure the constant nagging, complaining, emotional manipulation — and worse — that constitutes what remains of institution of marriage these days.
I would like to hear the dead man’s version.
I didn’t prove anything. Simply called you out on your blatant sexism. You may have a right to say it (without provocation, to boot), but don’t have a right to no blowback (per NFL kneelers, anyone?).
Meaning you put us all in a pot of bad traits, while apparently you men are perfect.
You might be nice to them but obviously you think ill of them. Which is OK but remember, women are always in any given population, and you cannot change that, no matter how heterogeneous or homogeneous your nation or locale.
Thus, a bit more respect, please. For the people who bore you.
“and the world gives a huge sigh of relief that you didn’t marry...Thank the Lord!”
Boom! You really made his point there.
I’ve been married 31 years. Want to take a shot at me?
The people who “bore” me? How about “torment?”
Because “torment” is what life with women has become. Believe me, I know this from personal experience, even though I have never been married or suffered the usual result therefrom — being dragged into family court, deprived of half one’s assets, and alienated from one’s children, if any.
I have no respect for nags, shrews, gossips, teases, sluts, chronic complainers, emotional manipulators, or the whole spectrum of female abuse that today’s men are supposed to put up with while exclaiming “yes, ma’am, may I have another?”
Such people don’t deserve any respect. Call it sexism, if you will. I’d rather be tagged a sexist than put up with people who are emotionally unbalanced and have no morals.
And everything in our culture today is calculated to give women the benefit of the doubt in any domestic conflict, while viewing males as guilty until proven innocent.
I have no doubt that this woman who shot her husband will get away with it and probably get a guest shot on “Dr. Phil.”
With such lunatics out there, it’s best to be alone.
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