'A nightmare case.' Florida man thought he shot an intruder, but it was his pregnant wife

[Zorro]

A Martin County man thought he heard someone outside his bedroom door in the middle of the night Wednesday. Thinking it was an intruder, the man shot at them. But it wasn’t an intruder. It was his pregnant wife, reports say.

Around 1:30 a.m., the husband heard a noise outside his bedroom door in Stuart, Florida, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said during a news conference.

He didn’t realize his wife wasn’t in the room when he went to investigate with a handgun and then saw a shape in the hallway, which he shot at once. Upon realizing it was his wife he called 911 and told dispatchers he shot her, The Associated Press reported.

She was taken to a hospital, where she later died. The husband and wife have not been identified by deputies.

https://news.yahoo.com/nightmare-case-florida-man-thought-230405575.html

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Jesus

😥

[58Sunliner]

2. Number one threat to a pregnant woman, besides medical complications, are husbands.

Remember the case in SA?

[LuckyCharms]

3. Holy shit.

[Hoyt]

4. Another one of those mythical "responsible gun owners." Very sad.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Something similar happened in Winter Springs.

Two older people met on Match.com and began dating. The woman left her state and moved in with him. She had a pension which was greatly dwindled in the time they were dating. Then in the days before their marriage, she came home late at night and he shot her.

He got off. Lots of weird circumstances were involved. But he still got off.

[Mike 03]

6. Polygraph him. Just to be on the safe side.

[dware]

15. You can't force someone to take a polygraph,

polygraphs aren't totally reliable, that's why most states don't allow them as evidence in criminal trials unless it's allowed by the defendant.

[dawg day]

7. This will be on "Dateline" in a couple years--

"Oops... not an accident after all."

And even if it is, what lunatic shoots a "shape" in a dark hallway?

[pnwest]

12. Stinks to high heaven...

[Aristus]

8. "Don't move! I've got a gun!"

“Honey, it’s ME!”

“Oh. Sorry, sweetie...”

How f*****g hard would that have been?

Goddamned stupid fucking gun-humpers...

[AleksS]

9. Glad he had a gun to keep himself safe!!

[happybird]

10. This smells funny

How do you not notice if someone’s in bed with you? Not to mention, the first instinct on hearing something outside your bedroom is to check if your partner has gotten up to get a drink or whatever, or if they are still sleeping. Why would you shoot at a “shape” when there are other family members in the house? You don’t shoot at what you can’t identify.

Will be watching to see how the investigation on this one goes.

[frazzled]

18. Pregnant ladies need to get up to pee a lot

When you've got 8 or 9 pounds of baby constantly pressing on your bladder, you get up at night.

I'm not really buying this either.

[Princess Turandot]

11. Kinda like Oscar Pistorius in South Africa...

If you thought there was an intruder in the house, wouldn't you wake up your spouse who is pregnant and sleeping next to you before doing anything else. Tell her to call the police, lock the bedroom door while you went to check things out.

[mtnsnake]

16. It sure does. In case some don't know, he was the famous Olympics "blade runner"

double amputee sprinter.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. If you live with other people

why you assume the person you're hearing is an intruder? Likely, the poor woman got up to use the bathroom in middle of the night.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. Stand your Ground

gone wild.

[riverwalker]

17. Pregnant women have to pee every 5 minutes

He would have been used to her getting up often to bathroom. Sounds fishy.

[hunter]

19. I don't let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.

Life's much more pleasant that way.

The odds I'd ever shoot anyone in my house (including myself) are zero.

Most U.S. Americans don't care enough about guns to bother owning one.

Owning guns is an onerous responsibility.

My name is Hunter, here and in real life, but I've avoided shooting meat for all of the twenty first century so far. Mostly I'm a vegetarian.

For what it's worth, I think many of these "accidental" shootings are domestic violence.

Gun fetishes are disgusting.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. This sort of thing

is why I refuse to allow a gun in the house. Because when people are scared, they do dumb, irresponsible, reckless things with a lethal weapon.

[Mr. Sparkle]

21. hopefully he never sees the light of day again.

[LizBeth]

22. The most dangerous period in a woman's life is when she is preg.