Posted on 06/03/2018 3:34:19 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A Dallas woman told police she shot and killed her husband because he was beating the family cat, according to investigators.
Neighbors said they were shocked to hear Mary Harrison, 47, had been charged with murder in the slaying of her 49–year-old husband Dexter Harrison Saturday morning.
“A man got shot over a cat? It’s kind of crazy,” neighbor Carl Phillips told KTVT. “It’s unbelievable. A man loses his life over a cat. I mean, people love their pets, but it ain’t that serious… to die for a cat.”
Dallas police were dispatched to the Harrison home in response to a shooting.
When officers arrived Mary Harrison reported that she had shot her husband “during an argument, as he was beating the family cat,” police said.
He went to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police said she went to Dallas Police headquarters where she agreed to be interviewed by homicide detectives.
“During the course of the interview, she admitted to her role in the offense and confessed to shooting the victim,” police said.
KTVT reported that the Harrison’s cat had disappeared recently.
She posted signs during the search for the missing cat. The cat eventually returned.
Harrison is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond in the Dallas County Jail.
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Ban Cats?
Ban Guns?
Ban Cats With Guns?
The Gun-Grabbing Socialists have me SO confused! ;)
FR cat lovers appear claiming justifiable homicide in 3.. 2.. 1..
The cat probably crapped in his shoe
Will PETA claim this was an act of self-defense?
I dunno man, I can see where she is coming from on this.
when I was 20 I beat two kids senseless when I caught them jamming a stick in the ass of a cat. They killed the cat in a horrible way and I have to say that I didn’t plan on stopping my swings if their father didn’t intervene.
So I dunno about this. I really can’t say that animals are outside of my defensive Menu of Services.
Sic this woman on the cougar that killed the cat in the other story.
I just saw that post. Yikes!
Yeah, I doubt the husband was a kind, gentle provider who from time to time beat the family cat.
There was a guy in Dallas County a few years ago. Beat up his girlfriend. Beat up her mother. Then took the cat and threw it off the second floor balcony. The cat was killed when it hit the paved parking lot below.
Acquitted for beating the girlfriend.
Acquitted for beating her mother.
5 years in prison for cruelty to the cat by using a deadly weapon (the pavement of the parking lot).
If she gets the right lawyer and the right jury, she may well walk.
She maybe figured she was next.
I won’t blame her. No one kicks my dog and lives to tell about it.
I might do something very regrettable if I came upon the same scenario.
I’m an animal lover, and not so much a people lover.
Yep.
There was most likely a LOT more going on in that marriage/home than just kicking the cat...
That would be evidence that he previously provoked the cat. "They don't make mistakes. They don't do random"
The cat was a shot caller.
The dude should have paid attention to the MS-13 tattoo on its ear.
I just read this article to my cat and he believes she was fully justified.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Cats would just be a start, then he moves on to people.
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