'Sorry to end it this way!': Man who thought wife was having an affair shot her dead when she asked for a divorce, police say

A Texas antheral accused of fatally shooting his wife reportedly attempted to instrumentality his ain beingness aft committing the alleged crime.

Lavan Bullock, 66, is charged with first-degree execution successful transportation with the shooting death of his wife, 62-year-old Kathleen Bullock. The Longview Police Department reported at the time that officers were dispatched to the couple's location connected the day of Sept. 22 for a payment check. When they arrived, they recovered Kathleen Bullock successful a bathroom, dormant from a gunshot wound.

According to tribunal documents obtained by section ABC affiliate KLTV, Lavan Bullock allegedly confessed to the execution successful a substance message, saying helium "lost [his] mind" and changeable his wife.

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Following Lavan Bullock's apprehension successful September, constabulary said the fishy had been taken to the infirmary for "non-life-threatening injuries" earlier helium was booked into the Gregg County Jail, wherever helium is presently successful custody. KLTV reported that according to the apprehension affidavit, Lavan Bullock texted a person aft helium allegedly changeable Kathleen Bullock, telling him that helium took 30 sleeping pills successful an effort to instrumentality his ain life.

The affidavit stated that Lavan Bullock told his person via text, "[I] mislaid my caput from years of her carnal and affectional maltreatment and changeable her." When constabulary spoke to the friend, helium told them that Kathleen Bullock had asked her hubby for a divorcement the period before. Neighbors told constabulary that Lavan Bullock thought his woman mightiness beryllium having an affair.

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In the texts to his friend, constabulary said Lavan Bullock instructed him to telephone a preacher and to marque definite the couple's girl did not participate their home. He reportedly texted, "Thank you my friend! I'm truthful atrocious to extremity it this way!"

A justice ordered that Lavan Bullock beryllium held connected $1 cardinal enslaved astatine his arraignment successful September. He remains successful custody astatine Gregg County Jail.