A Hudson woman was charged with murder after shooting her husband while singing “Click, click, boom,” according to an arrest affidavit.
DS, 49, called 911 on May 14 around 6:26 p.m. and told dispatch her husband was “dead,” and later said “I pulled the trigger,” and the firearm she used was located inside the home on a nightstand.
Deputies arrived at the home located on the 13000 block of Judy Avenue in Hidson and found D outside.
PSO deputies went inside the home and discovered JS dead in the shower inside the master bathroom, according to the arrest affidavit.
Disbelief riddled the Hudson community.
“Shocked,” CM said. “I’m shocked.” 12;00;58;07>
“I don’t even know why she would play around like that,” she continued. “I don’t even understand that, I really don’t.”
During an interview with D, she stated her husband of 10 years was in the shower, and she grabbed his handgun and began singing “Click, click, boom,” which is a song she sings with her husband.
D told deputies her husband turned the shower off and was in the process of drying himself with a towel when she pointed the weapon, which she thought was unloaded, at her husband and pulled the trigger once, hitting him.
The affidavit said D checked on her husband before calling her daughter and then 911.
“Based on the known facts and circumstances, D Southwell intentionally fired the handgun in the direction of her husband, without a premeditated design, which was an act imminently dangerous and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life which resulted in the death of her husband,” the arrest affidavit said.
D was unable to tell deputies why she took possession of the firearm, according to PSO.
Speaking with deputies, D repeatedly denied being involved in an argument or physical altercation with her husband prior to the shooting.
D was arrested on Thursday and charged with murder/homicide-not premeditated.
How could Southwell’s defense of ignorance play out in court?
We went to criminal defense attorney BC, who is unaffiliated with this case, to find out.
“It’s all going to be up to the jury,” he said. “If the jury is made up of people who are willing to believe her or take that leap of faith so to speak, give her the benefit of the doubt that this was nothing more than an accident, she could prevail.”
News Channel 8 reporter Nicole Rogers asked, “Could that fact that this happened in Pasco County have an impact on this case?’
“Yes, Pasco County is much more conservative people, and a lot of them are responsible gun owners,” he said. “It very well could be a detriment to her, but it all depends if the jury is made up of women who sympathize with her.”
A judge denied Southwell bond Thursday.
She has since pleaded not guilty.
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Source: wfla
