An Alabama woman has been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing her husband because he was annoying her too much after she underwent open-heart surgery.
Sheri Mitchell-Clutts, 65, was taken into custody on Sunday night, May 10, after reportedly admitting to killing her husband, 69-year-old Timothy Clutts, at their rural home in Russellville, according to jail records.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they found Timothy dead in his recliner with a single gunshot wound to his chest, local media reported.
Mitchell-Clutts initially called 911 and told dispatchers that she felt threatened by her husband before she shot him. However, investigators who interviewed her later heard a different account, Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver told the outlet.
The enraged wife reportedly admitted to killing her husband of 15 years during a conversation with investigators, Oliver recalled.
She later told officers that Timothy had been annoying her by repeatedly coming into her room after she had undergone open-heart surgery two weeks earlier, the outlet reported.
Mitchell-Clutts said she went to retrieve her gun in case he came back to her room. But when he never showed up, she went to where he was sitting and shot him in his recliner, authorities alleged.
“There’s a number of cases where someone does something like this, you’re actually having to track them down and find them and build evidence based on the scene, and in this situation, she was pretty open,” Sheriff Oliver said.
“You know, which leads us to a bunch of questions like what was going on with her or him.”
Mitchell-Clutts was booked into Franklin County Jail on murder charges and ordered held without bond.
