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Woman fatally shot ex-husband

Kansas City Star - MO, USA

2008 11 25

Woman in custody after fatal shooting

A woman was in police custody Monday night after telling officers she shot and killed a man in the 9600 block of Bannister Road.

Police were called to the shooting about 11:10 p.m. Officers found several women in the house, along with a man thought to be in his 50s dead from a gunshot wound.

Police said one of the women told the officers she shot the man….(Full Story)

Update 2008 11 26:

MyFox Kansas City - Kansas City, MO, USA

Woman Admits Shooting Naked, Handcuffed Ex-Husband Over Sex

2008 11 25

KANSAS CITY, MO  –  A woman is under arrest after she told police she shot her ex-husband who kept coming over and demanding sex from her….(Full Story)

Woman shot boyfriend to death

Fort Scott Tribune - Fort Scott, KS, USA

2008 11 25

Toson awaits trial on murder charges in K.C.

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The Fort Scott Tribune A Kansas City woman remains in custody after being accused of shooting her boyfriend, a Fort Scott native, to death in his home earlier this year….(Full Story)

75-year-old woman shot and killed husband

Benton County Daily Record - Bentonville, AR, USA

BENTONVILLE - The attorney for a Rogers woman accused of killing her husband will use a mental disease or defect as defense against the crime.

Myrtle Walter, 75, was arrested for capital murder on Oct. 4 after admitting to police she shot and killed her husband. Prosecutors have not filed a charge in the case….(Full Story)

Woman shot boyfriend as he slept

WDSU.com - New Orleans, LA, USA

Police: Woman Shot Allegedly Abusive Boyfriend

2008 11 24

VIOLET, La. — A woman who claimed she had been abused allegedly shot her live-in boyfriend to death as he slept, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’ Jack Stephens said.

Ralph Brossette, 35, was shot to death just before 10:30 a.m. Monday in a rented house on Meraux Lane in Violet. Sheriff’s deputies charged 31-year-old Connie Reeb, who had lived with Brossette for six months, with second-degree murder….(Full Story)

Domestic violence industry: racist

RenewAmerica

November 24, 2008

Domestic violence industry: racist

By Carey Roberts

The Family Place, an abuse shelter in Dallas, recently placed race-baiting advertisements on local buses. The ads depict a smiling African-American girl crowned with a tiara who innocently predicts, “One day my husband will kill me.”

Barbara Kay of the National Post charged the ads were “outright lies.” Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland labeled them “shocking and biased.” Journalist Helen Smith called them “very disturbing hate speech.” And Elizabeth Crawford, president of African-Americans for VAWA Reform, denounced the bus placards as “sexist and racist.”….(Full Story)

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