'Thinks he was hot stuff': Man claimed he accidentally killed wife in front of her son during argument that 'got out of hand,' police say

A 32-year-old Indiana antheral with an evident penchant for brandishing his firearm allegedly told authorities helium accidentally shot his wife, who died from a gunshot coiled to the thorax wrong the family's home.

Stephen Ray Lang was arrested Thursday nighttime and charged with 1 number each of murder, home battery, intimidation, and pointing a firearm successful the decease of Sara M. Lang, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Harrison County Sheriff's Department, deputies responded to the family's residence connected Hillcrest Drive successful Mauckport soon earlier 10 p.m., aft Lang called 911 to study an "accidental gunshot." The location is astir 140 miles southbound of Indianapolis.

Upon arriving astatine the address, archetypal responders recovered Sara Lang suffering from a gunshot coiled to the chest. She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Detectives identified a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun arsenic the limb utilized successful the shooting. Investigators person not disclosed what grounds led them to reason Lang should look a execution complaint contempt his assertion that the shooting was accidental.

Two children — a 14-year-old lad and a 4-year-old miss — were wrong the residence erstwhile the shooting took place, according to investigators.

Additional details astir what allegedly happened earlier the fatal changeable came from Stephen Lang's ain relatives, who spoke with Louisville, Kentucky, ABC affiliate WLKY.

Stephen Lang's sister, Sarah Shireman, said the shooting happened aft an statement betwixt Sara Lang and the teenage boy. She claimed her member intervened during the quality and pulled retired a handgun.

"With each the bickering going backmost and forth, I deliberation helium was virtually conscionable trying to get them to beryllium quiet, and everybody conscionable calm down," Shireman told the station.

Shireman acknowledged that her member had a past of displaying a firearm during arguments to intimidate people, including during an altercation with her respective months earlier.

"He pulled it retired due to the fact that helium thinks helium was blistery stuff," she said. "I volition admit helium acted similar helium was going to bash thing with maine and him erstwhile we got into a combat a mates months ago, but it didn't enactment retired for him."

Shireman maintained that contempt those encounters, she does not judge her member intentionally killed his wife.

"My member is not a killer. My member is the sweetest," she said. "He is the sweetest idiosyncratic ever and would bash thing to assistance anybody."

Speaking of the deadly incident, Stephen Lang's begetter reportedly said "it was a simple, little, anserine statement that got retired of hand."

The Harrison County Coroner's Office is scheduled to execute an autopsy arsenic detectives proceed investigating the circumstances of the shooting.