Woman accused of shooting husband

Staff report

AUSTINTOWN

A 61-year-old man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center with a gunshot wound to his lower abdomen.

Police did not release the victim’s condition, but Austintown Police Capt. Bryan Kloss said he was unable to talk with officers Wednesday morning at the hospital.

Kloss also said no charges have been filed against the man’s 54-year-old wife because authorities are “waiting to talk to him to see what actually happened at the house,” and to see if their stories match up.

The pair were not identified by police. But a report says officers arrived at 51 S. Edgehill Ave. on Tuesday night on a 911 call for a man shot. Officers were directed upstairs to where the man was, and the woman told police she had shot her husband.

The wife told police she and her husband had been arguing since May 1 about a former female friend who has a 40-year-old daughter, which could have been fathered by the victim.

The wife said they got into an argument about the situation while she was doing laundry and staying at another house for a few days. The wife said she went upstairs to pack more clothes, and the man followed her.

She then shut the door and told police the man kept saying he was going to kill her. She went to her walk-in closet and retrieved her loaded gun, a revolver.

The man, she said, kept walking toward her while she continued to tell him to stop. She kept telling him that she would shoot, and she fired one shot. A second shot was fired, and the husband fell to the ground stating that he was dying, according to a police report.

The woman called 911 for help.

Austintown police said this was the first shooting they have investigated since one in January 2013 in the 300 block of North Roanoke Avenue during a home invasion.