‘He came at me with a bottle ... I had my gun, I shot him,’ Texas wife said after slaying
A Little Elm woman told a Denton County dispatcher in the early hours of Feb. 12 that she shot her husband in the head after he came after her with a bottle.
Micyra Williams told Little Elm police she had smashed her husband’s cell phone on Feb. 11 after she found him talking to another woman on the phone, according to an affidavit for an arrest warrant.
The couple separated for about six hours before the two encountered each other again at their Little Elm home.
“We just had a fight. He hit me. I’m asking him to leave,” Williams told the dispatcher, according to the affidavit. “He came at me with a bottle, so we were fighting over the bottle. I had my gun and I shot him.”
Williams, 27, was arrested Wednesday and remained in the Denton County Jail on Friday in lieu of $500,000 bail.
She is expected to be charged with murder, according to Little Elm police.
Williams is accused of shooting her husband, 31-year-old Caleb Marshall Butler-Pearson, in the head on the morning of Feb. 12.
The affidavit written by Little Elm Detective Candace Reza gave this brief account:
After the argument involving the phone, the couple had separated for several hours, and Williams said she retrieved her firearm to scare her husband and she removed the safety before pointing the gun at him.
Williams told the dispatcher she shot her husband, according to the affidavit. Four children were in the house at the time of the shooting, but they were not injured.
When the dispatcher asked who had shot her husband in the head, Williams responded, “By me,” the affidavit stated.
When paramedics arrived, her husband was pronounced dead at the scene in the 2800 block of Quietwater Drive.
On the morning of the shooting, Williams was taken to a local hospital for injuries she suffered during the fight, Little Elm police said.
