Posted on 08/29/2007 4:11:15 PM PDT by monkeycard
The Bonneville County Sheriff's Office is investigating a deadly shooting at a home in Swan Valley between a wife and her husband.
Last night, Debra Schultz says she shot her husband once in the chest, claiming it was in self defense. 48-year-old William Schultz died.
Detectives are treating it like a homicide until they get all the facts.
Court and crime specialist Suzanne Hobbs spoke with law enforcement and with the woman who pulled the trigger.
Debra Schultz says throughout her relationship he was physically violent and she never got out, although just last week she did go to a women's shelter in Driggs for help, and just returned home where she had to fight for her life.
Three months ago, the couple moved from Reno Nevada to Swan Valley. They lived in an apartment just off the Swan Valley Highway above a real estate office.
Tuesday night, Debra says her husband was high on marijuana and drinking. The fight got so bad he grabbed a gun and said he was going to shoot her. She says it was either shoot him or she would be killed.
She even considered jumping out of the second story window, but says William stopped her.
She didn't want her battered and bruised face to be shown, so when I talked to her, we are showing you her injured leg, hurt as she was running down the stairs last night.
Debra Schultz, Shot Husband: "When he came home last night he told me that he was going to kill me and that was after he beat up my face and he said, "I can't let you go now because if the cops see this I'm going to go to prison." And he already has 5 charges in Reno hanging over his head for domestic violence against me."
Doug Metcalf, Bonneville Co. Sheriff's Office: "Right now we are treating it as a homicide and it'll - we'll turn it into the prosecutor once we get all the interviews, the evidence from the autopsy and things like that to him, and they'll make the decision whether it's homicide or self defense."
The sheriff's office says their investigation will take several days. Debra, who is fully cooperating, is already making plans to move back to Reno as soon as she can.
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This is why she needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If you stay in something like this you might as well be charged with premeditation because eventually you are going to have to shoot the sucker.
I wonder if this man made his wife wear a wig and high heeled shoes? If he did then he got what women think he deserves.
If that part is true she should get a medal for ridding the world of a worthless piece of human garbage.
That’s pretty stupid logic. How about she shoots him once for every time he beat her instead?
He goes out, and she can't leave while he's gone?
I may get flamed but I cannot believe that a woman in an abusive relationship has absolutely no other options but to kill her oppressor.
My wife's niece is in such a situation and I have told her she has the option to come live with us. We are about 300 miles away from where she is, so she doesn't care for that option. It is never the less an option and if he came around here with his B.S., she wouldn't have to shoot him, she has an uncle who loves her to take care of minor problems like that.
He said, she said.
I’m thinking the shooting is justified.
On the Other Hand: Women who WON’T bail out of bad situation need to be prosecuted for stupidity.
It happens in every family. But smart women (and men) bail the first time they encounter this destructive behaviour.
I say men because research by several different universities has proven what most men know: in an encounter, women resort to physical violence first. 52 percent of the time.
Sounds like she has thought this out pretty well and is confident she will be released. Versus someone distraught over killing another human being and racked with grief and guilt over the death of her husband even if her claims are true. Funny how events like this, no matter how rare beforehand, always seem to have a repeat shortly there after. I refer to the minister’s wife and now this. Call me skeptical.
I don’t understand women like that either. But then, I’ve never loved anyone so much I’d take any crap from them, either. I’m 55 years old, never been married, and a have a genius IQ. The latter has caused a lot of problems.
The moral of this story is: don’t abuse another just because you’re bigger and stronger and are able to do so. That includes kicking the dog and/or cat. And this applies to women just as much as to men. Small doesn’t mean defenseless. I’m a crack shot with a 45 Navy revolver, and I have very small hands.
I had a friend, a very strong/smart woman who unfortunately followed in her mothers footsteps of bad guys and single motherhood. Her boyfriend hit her in the face, she went and got her 22 rifle and shot him. He apologized for hitting her, said he would never do so again, and politely requested a ride to the hospital (some 40 minutes away).
I sure hope she left his sorry a$$ there!
Moral of the story...this isn’t love...if you stay you know something bad is coming....duh!
An older freind of mine once told me that her husband, when they were first married, had tried to beat her. She threw every piece of crockery she could find in the kitchen and drove him out the back dooor! He retreated only to come back 30 minutes later and promised, if she would take him back, that he would never hurt her physically again. They were married for nearly 50 years.
I sure hope your niece will take you up on your kind offer.
This is an excellent example of gun control at its finest. She hit exactly what she was shooting at. Moms Mabely said that if you were going to say something about the dead, you should say something good. He’s dead—GOOD!
Just because it had happened five times before didn't mean it that would happen again -- right? So she stayed in the relationship. Does that make sense to her apologists here?
Please. She probably stayed with him in order to be abused. Abused spouses lose their status as sympathetic victims unless they leave the relationship.
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