Woman Admitted She Fatally Shot Husband Because He ‘Simply Bothered’ and ‘Annoyed’ Her, Police Say

An Alabama woman has been arrested after authorities say she fatally shot her husband while she was recovering from open-heart surgery.

According to local outlet WAFF, Franklin County deputies responded to a 911 call around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 10, at a residence in Russellville. When officers arrived, they found 69-year-old Timothy Clutts dead from a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Investigators said Timothy was seated in his recliner when he was shot.

Authorities identified the suspect as 65-year-old Sheri Mitchell-Clutts, Timothy’s wife of 15 years. Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver said she initially told dispatchers she had felt threatened earlier in the day. However, investigators said her account changed during questioning.

“After the interview and sitting down and talking with her, yes, she was arrested and charged with murder,” Sheriff Shannon Oliver said.

According to investigators, Sheri later admitted she was “simply bothered by and annoyed by her husband” while she was recovering from surgery she underwent roughly two weeks earlier, WAFF reported.

Deputies said Sheri told them her husband repeatedly entered her room to check on her, frustrating her to the point that she retrieved a gun in case he returned. Investigators alleged Timothy never came back into the room, and that Sheri instead walked into the room where he was sitting in his recliner and shot him once.

“There’s a number of cases where someone does something like this you’re actually having to track them down and find them and build evidence based on the scene and in this situation she was pretty open,” Sheriff Oliver said. “You know, which leads us to a bunch of questions like what was going on with her or him.”

Authorities said they are still investigating what led to the shooting.

“Her demeanor seemed obviously upset from what little interaction I had with her at the scene but you never know what’s going through somebody’s mind,” Oliver added.

Oliver reviewed six years of call logs and found no prior domestic violence-related calls connected to the home.

Sheri was booked into the Franklin County Jail without bond pending an Aniah’s Law hearing, which is a pretrial detention hearing in Alabama that allows prosecutors to request that a judge hold a defendant charged with certain violent offenses without bail, according to Al.com.