Wife allegedly admits to killing husband for bothering her after heart surgery

WAFF/Gray News ^ | May 12, 2026 | By Javon Williams, Aria Pons and Gray News staff

[ConservativeStatement]

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - An Alabama woman was arrested after calling 911 and admitting to fatally shooting her husband of 15 years. Investigators say she later told them she was simply bothered and annoyed by him.

Franklin County deputies responded to a Russellville home after receiving a 911 call from 65-year-old Sheri Mitchell-Clutts just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday. There, they found 69-year-old Timothy Clutts dead in his recliner with a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Investigators say when Mitchell-Clutts called 911, she told dispatchers she felt threatened throughout the day leading up the shooting, but when investigators sat her down for questioning, they got a different story.

Sheriff Shannon Oliver says Mitchell-Clutts admitted right away that she shot and killed her husband of 15 years. It wasn’t until later that she told investigators she was simply bothered and annoyed by the victim.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alabamawoman; ariapons; clutts; franklincounty; javonwilliams; russellville; shannonoliver; sherimitchellclutts; shooting; timothyclutts

[ConservativeStatement]

Sounds as if she had no heart even after surgery.

[PGR88]

Just hang her now

She’s admitted it. Save the prison system the cost of a post-menopausal Karen with a bad heart.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Surgeon error...he removed the heart.

[Fido969]

Sounds reasonable.

[MarlonRando]

Wait. do you mean to tell me that I can shoot people who annoy me?

This is like Christmas

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: ...when investigators sat her down for questioning, they got a different story.

#believeallwomen

"Women are nurturing."

[AppyPappy]

Don’t let my wife find out about this

[Tucsonican]

So she was annoyed that he kept bothering her and then when he stopped bothering her she shot him?

Women. You just can’t ever get it right with them.

[Hyman Roth]

Maybe if she would’ve had a heart to heart talk with him.

[MarlonRando]

but her something nice

[lee martell]

I’ve always heard that many people will have a dramatic change in personality after undergoing heart surgery.
Some will show increased irritability, have mood shifts, or experience “cardiac blues”, often resembling PTSD.
This change may be for a few months or in some cases, ongoing.

[kawhill]

“Sheriff Shannon Oliver says Mitchell-Clutts admitted right away that she shot and killed her husband of 15 years. It wasn’t until later that she told investigators she was simply bothered and annoyed by the victim.” Girl you are not only a murderer, but I think you are nuts.

[Steely Tom]

Ha ha!

[frank ballenger]

Good one. If she had a transplant it might have come from Abby Normal.

RE: “she was simply bothered and annoyed by the victim.”

Maybe that U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui can apologize to her as he did with the unsuccessful assassin Cole Tomas Allen.

[PAR35]

Wait. do you mean to tell me that I can shoot people who annoy me?

Only if you feel threatened by them resting in a recliner.

[jurroppi1]

"Wait. do you mean to tell me that I can shoot people who annoy me?"

Well you can, but I doubt the outcome of it will be like anything you imagined if your first thought is "This is like Christmas". You can do a lot of things, whether they are societally acceptable and without consequence is entirely different.

Of course I understand there was sarcasm intended, I just felt like responding in a way that a tit would respond.

[PGalt]

YES

[frank ballenger]

Imagine all those people culled from the overcrowded cities and towns.

“What a wonderful world it would be.”
—Sam Cooke song Don’t Know Much About History

[AppyPappy]

I got her a broom last year and she refuses to ride it

[Midwesterner53]

Evil.