She shot her husband after a fight over their tax return, Fort Worth police say

A married couple's argument over their tax return escalated to the point that a woman shot the husband, Fort Worth police said.

The woman said her husband attacked her first, police spokesman Jimmy Pollozani said, so she shot him.

The woman told police that the shooting happened after the man charged her at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning in their apartment in the 8800 block of Sharpview Drive in west Fort Worth. The apartment is in the Emerald Hills Apartments, which are in the Las Vegas Trail area.

"He could have killed my sister, he's something else," said Doris Davis, a woman standing outside the residence who identified herself as the woman's sister.

"She was going to school to become a psychologist," Davis said of her sister. "It's been a long time he's been hitting her, but she wasn't telling nobody."

The couple had been arguing about their tax return and it escalated to the point that the woman shot her husband once in the abdomen, Pollozani said.

"The male is just saying that she shot him but not anything else," Pollozani said. "Family Violence Unit has been notified and will make the determination on what to do with the wife."

Said Davis: "We're going to have to put her in a safe place. Her life is still in danger."

But she added, "She'll be good. We're a family that prays together and stays together."

The husband was transported to Harris Methodist Hospital with serious injuries, MedStar spokesman Matt Zavadsky said.

Police removed what appeared to be two long guns in cases from the apartment. Family members said they didn't know they were there.

This story was originally published April 26, 2018 at 9:16 AM with the headline "She shot her husband after a fight over their tax return, Fort Worth police say."