OH woman sentenced in skimpy Easter outfit killing

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 11/10/2010 | staff

[tlb]

COLUMBUS, Ohio—An Ohio woman who police say shot a relative to death amid a dispute over a skimpy Easter outfit has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.

Forty-two-year-old Evelyn Burgess pleaded guilty in Columbus Tuesday to murder in the April 4 death of 19-year-old Danielle Pickens, a cousin.

Pickens wore jeans shorts to Burgess' home for Easter dinner. Prosecutors say Burgess became upset thinking the shorts were too short and that her husband was looking at them.

[tlb]

You may be a redneck if ....

[ASA Vet]

Yesterdays thread

[AppyPappy]

Her neck ain’t red

[Red_Devil 232]

911 Call:

“I just shot my niece,” the woman says calmly at the beginning of the 33-second call released to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“I didn’t mean to do it,” the woman said. “We was arguing, I tried to get my gun to prove a point, they got the rifle with me and it went off.”

Asked about the location of her niece, the woman says bluntly, “In the car. I think she’s dead.”
The woman does not give her name but calls herself the victim’s aunt. Family members say Evelyn Burgess, the woman arrested in the shooting, was referred to as the victim’s aunt, though she was her older second cousin.

Evelyn Burgess was angry at Danielle over her outfit and accused her of flaunting her looks around other men at the party, including Burgess’ husband, Ralinda Pickens said.

A fight broke out with Evelyn Burgess and Danielle struggling with a baseball bat, then ended as Ralinda Pickens broke things up, got her sister outside and prepared to drive her home.

The sisters were in the car when Burgess came running up with a gun, reached inside the car, pulled Danielle by the hair and shot her as she tried to seek shelter under her older sister, Ralinda Pickens said.

Burgess then walked back inside her house, sat down on a couch, told people what had happened and waited for the police, Ralinda Pickens said.

[null and void]

Guilty as home-made sin.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Yesterdays(sic) thread

Actually this morning. Yesterday was the ninth.

[Gondring]

You may be a redneck if ....

...you wear Daisy Duke's and a hiked-up T-Shirt in honor of The Lord's resurrection...?

[La Lydia]

Until how I have never truly appreciated my family’s tame, not to say soporific, holiday dinners.

[tlb]

I searched “skimpy”. But not “Easter”.

C’est La Guerre.

[Post Toasties]

Clearly another case of Stupid Pill overdosage.

[reagan_fanatic]

I was gonna ask for pictures, but...never mind.

[keepitreal]

Guns don’t kill skimpy Easter outfits, people do.

[GSWarrior]

Well, she's all you'd ever want
She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner
But she always knows her place
She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner.

[ASA Vet]

I looked at my phone before posting the ‘yesterday’ and it showed Nov 11 something. That was the hour not the date, so yep, I screwed up.

[ASA Vet]

And before you point out that it was after twelve when I posted. This phone time is more than 15 minutes slow, so it really was in hour 11 according to it.
(No, I can’t change the time, it’s controlled by a central computerized phone system somewhere in the building.)

[fungoking]

The Amish strike again!

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

WOW! She’s a beast. Jealousy really is an UGLY emotion!!!!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Jealous Heffah Who Killed Cuz On Easter Was Just Tryin’ To Make A Point

[Levante]

“Guilty as home-made sin.”

As guilty as Satan himself!

[Levante]

“Guilty as home-made sin.”

As guilty as Satan himself!