Posted on 06/22/2009 3:55:49 AM PDT by marktwain
A Prince George's County woman fatally shot her husband in an apparent act of self-defense Saturday after he attacked her at the Capitol Heights duplex where the pair lived in separate units, according to police and neighbors.
Just after 8 a.m., authorities said, police were called to the home in the 700 block of Capitol Heights Boulevard on a report of a domestic dispute. In front of the house, they found Richard Marcellous Wilson, 30, with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Police said Wilson's wife fired the fatal shot.
The circumstances of the incident are unclear, but police think that the shooting "appears to have been in self-defense," said Cpl. Mike Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Prince George's police department. Wilson, police said, had violated an active protective order when he attacked his wife.
Rodriguez declined to name the shooter because she is a victim in the case and has not been charged.
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"I never saw her scared," he said. "She might have really feared for her life and did what she needed to do to live another day."
McKinney said Wilson's wife had a security job.
Online court records indicate that she had made allegations of violence against Wilson. He was charged with violating a protective order May 15, and about a month later, court records show, he was found not guilty on an assault charge after his wife "invoked marital privilege after oath."
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Watch for the wailing from the anti-gun crowd. Oh wait, the People’s Republic of Maryland has some of the toughest gun control laws in the country.
“Domestics are always messy. I hear of many cases where the wife or girlfriend gets a protective order, then calls up the man and begs him to come over because she is lonely.”
When I went through my divorce, my attorney cautioned me on just that type of situation and how many men fall for it.
True, but there are quite a few Marylanders who do legally use firearms to protect themselves, as we see in stories here. Even though we do not have a codified Castle Doctrine, existing case law does give us sufficient precedent that someone who does a firearm to defend one's home from an intruder is most likely not going to be charged with a crime for doing so.
That being said, it'd still be nice to have a real Castle Doctrine as well as Shall Issue policies for concealed weapons permits. But one can dream, right?
My friend’s ex (a latina) had someone call him and say they were from her embassy and there was a family emergency and that he had to call her immediately to call home. He almost fell for it and she could have said he broke the protective order. BTW the protective order was for 3 days and was put in place because she was drunk and he knocked a beer can from her hand. Of course HE was arrested and charged with assault. When they went to court for her trying to get a 2 YEAR protective order (which would conveniently allowed her to get her residency visa) she was so unbelievable the judge refused to order it. My friend’s lawyer said he was extremely lucky, the judges almost always will issue the orders.
I’ve got a friend that was recently railroaded on a domestic violence charge, then issued a restraining order along with supervised probation which was immediately followed by several hundred phone calls from his wife trying to get him to come over. I helped move his stuff out of their upscale home in a very uncomfortable setting with a sheriff’s deputy running interference with the wife. Her excuse for why she did this to him was, “You don’t pay enough attention to me.” No joke!
He needed killing, Judge!
barbra ann
He needed killing, Judge!
barbra ann
Always hard to tell who is at fault in domestics. Usually a little of both parties, but sympathy always goes to the woman. I’ll tell you one thing, I would not want to be a cop going on a domestic dispute call. That’s gotta be the worse.
The simple solution is for the husband to file for a protective order as soon as he receives his.
Beyond the flowers, chapel, bridemaids and grooms, a wedding is entering into a business contract. Both sides had better sit down and understand exactly what they are doing before they sign on the dotted line.
Gunowners expecially have to be very careful who they enter into a relationship.
That’s a great idea. That would immediately stop all the baiting. The combatants would have to snipe at each other some other way.
And um... Marriage is a contract, but I would hope not a business contract, huh.
It's not an unusual tactic in divorce to maneuver the husband into doing something that violates some court order in order to get him in trouble.
Amazing how many on this thread are knee-jerk armchair blaming the wife, but the police aren’t.
Why would you say the OP is an idiot? Ive heard of, and KNOW of several situations JUST LIKE IT. It’s designed to make a huge gain for the woman in divorce proceedings, and works beautifully. The male cannot protect any assets while incarcerated, and the female wins bigtime.
Sure, it’s sleazy, and in some cases gets the man killed, but if you have any experience with divorce situations, you would know this is often the womans goal once they have completed using the man, and only wants his assets.
Wow!
Someone needs a cookie and a nap!
Can you disagree with someone online without childish namecalling? You spoil the online experience for others when you turn an online forum into something resembling recess at kindergarten.
With all due respect, do us all a favor and learn to disagree with people without childish name-calling.
When you hear hoofbeats, think horse, not zebra. In my experience, 7 out of 9 times, it's the female who is the real reason for the marital disquietude. Nowadays, IMO, women are far more likely to cheat, and MUCH more willing to throw it in the face of their man.
We'll likely never find out the truth, she killed the opposing side of the story.
Nope, he is telling the truth. I know of two such cases over the years first hand. No one was killed but the women were eventually beaten half to death and finally got away and stayed away.
Friends and acquaintences have gone through four divorces this year alone.
A wife disappeared and when she finally contacted her husband for the divorce, she admitted their son died a couple of years ago. She still hasn’t told him where he’s buried.
Best one: One couple had a divorce with no lawyer and the exhusband is paying rent to stay in the house until he gets a place.
The wife has moved out and they are in complete agreement as to who gets the property. That is until the lawyers get involved.
The worse one involves my best friends. My so-called “buddy” emptied the gunsafe and took her jewelry from her previous marriage. He also sold her car. This week he emptied her bank accounts the same week the judge told him he couldn’t alter their finances. He put a phone block on his daughters so they can’t contact him. The two girls are his daughters from a previous marriage. From phone records, it’s been proven he’s been having an affair that ruined his previous marriage. He had been unemployed for half their marriage. The soon to be exwife payed for her stepdaughter’s college educations and child support.
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