Woman shot sleeping boyfriend

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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. 

The woman initially told detectives that she walked into the couple’s bedroom from the bathroom and saw an unknown man shoot Brossette. She later told investigators that she shot Brossette three times in the head while he slept, the sheriff said….(Full Story)

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