In a shocking incident in Alabama, a woman purportedly shot her husband, claiming his constant monitoring following her heart surgery drove her to act, authorities and reports revealed.
On Sunday night, 65-year-old Sheri Mitchell-Clutts was taken into custody after she reportedly confessed to fatally shooting her husband, Timothy Clutts, aged 69, in their secluded home in Russelville, as per details from WAFF and local jail records.
Upon their arrival, deputies found Timothy lifeless in his recliner, with a single gunshot wound to his chest, according to the news outlet.
Mitchell-Clutts, during her 911 call, allegedly claimed she felt endangered by her husband prior to the shooting. However, Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver mentioned that during further questioning, a different narrative emerged.
The accused wife reportedly acknowledged to investigators that she killed her husband of 15 years in a moment of anger, Sheriff Oliver recounted.
She later informed officers that Timothy was annoying her by repeatedly coming into her room after she underwent open-heart surgery two weeks prior, the outlet reported.
Mitchell-Clutts callously went to retrieve her gun in case he came back to her room. But when he never showed, she went out 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.