'Make sure he was out of his misery': Wife shot husband several times because she 'didn't want him to suffer slowly,' police say

A 31-year-old Michigan pistillate is accused of sidesplitting her husband, allegedly shooting him aggregate times wrong their location and telling constabulary she did it to "make definite helium was retired of his misery." Andrea Graham was taken into custody Monday and charged with 1 number of unfastened murder arsenic good arsenic a felony firearm discourtesy successful transportation with the slaying of Alan Graham, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a news release from the Battle Creek Police Department, officers responded to a study of a shooting astir 4:30 p.m. astatine a location successful the 100 artifact of South Ridgeway Drive, which is astir 120 miles westbound of Detroit.

Upon arriving astatine the address, archetypal responders recovered a antheral with evident gunshot wounds to his precocious torso, according to a section quality release. A pistillate extracurricular the residence — aboriginal identified arsenic Andrea Graham — directed officers inside, and exigency responders attempted lifesaving measures earlier the antheral was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Police took Andrea Graham into custody and lodged her successful the Calhoun County Jail arsenic the probe continued, the merchandise said.

The Battle Creek Enquirer obtained tribunal documents providing further details astir the shooting.

According to the report, investigators said the shooting occurred successful the basement hallway, wherever officers discovered Alan Graham dormant from aggregate gunshot wounds.

At the scene, Graham allegedly told responding officers she changeable her hubby during a convulsive brushwood and described her actions successful blunt terms, according to a report from Grand Rapids, Michigan, NBC affiliate WOOD.

"I changeable him a mates of times to marque definite helium was retired of his misery due to the fact that I didn't privation him to endure slowly," she said.

Investigators recovered a 9 mm pistol and aggregate ammunition casings from antithetic areas of the home, and they recovered shattered solid from a representation framework connected the victim's body, the study said, suggesting the incidental progressive question done respective rooms.

Andrea Graham claimed she acted successful self-defense, telling authorities her hubby had been strangling her erstwhile she fired the weapon. Meanwhile, investigators said they did not observe injuries accordant with that assertion and recovered grounds that did not enactment her account.

She aboriginal appeared successful Calhoun County Court and entered a not blameworthy plea, declining to remark connected the allegations, according to Kalamazoo, Michigan, CBS and CW affiliate WWMT. Her lawyer described her arsenic a stay-at-home parent of 2 and said she has nary anterior felony convictions.

Graham is presently being held without enslaved and is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal connected April 22 for a probable origin conference, according to tribunal records.