Man shoots wife while installing satellite TV system

Terry · 2008-03-26T16:35:24+00:00

I was expecting the reason to be, she was trying to tell him how toinstall it. Here is the real reason, and it is just as bad. shoots wife while installing satellite TV systemPosted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 10:18 a.m.SEDALIA, MO. (AP) -- Officials are trying to decide whether to filecharges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while tryingto install a satellite TV system in their home.Thirty-four-year-old Patsy Long of Deep Water was pronounced deadSaturday evening after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliberhandgun. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside oftheir home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole throughthe exterior wall using other means.Henry County Sheriff's Deputies say the woman was hit by the second oftwo shots fired by her husband.Investigators say a person involved in such a case normally would becharged with manslaughter, but that was up to the prosecutor.

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Not 18 years ago

Didn't he have a gun?

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Terry 18 years ago

We were at an outdoor event and the cars were parked close to the kegs.

Some guy locked his keys in his pretty new Camaro. He was trying to break the windshield with a rock to get in. Someone stopped him before he could break it.

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