Wife sat on a curb as police arrived at her home. Inside was her allegedly murdered husband.
April 12 2021, Updated 11:27 a.m. ET
A domestic altercation led to a man's death and his wife facing a murder charge, according to authorities.
Police in Huntsville, Alabama, were called to a shooting around 6 p.m. on April 10. When they arrived, they found Inez Fuqua sitting on a nearby curb, police said.
Fuqua, 38, told police her husband, Christopher Fuqua, 30, was in the house.
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However, when police entered the house, they found Christopher Fuqua unresponsive and bleeding from a single gunshot wound, News 19 reported.
Medical personnel responded to the scene and pronounced Christopher Fuqua dead at the scene, police said
An investigation determined Inez and Christopher got into an argument and it ended with him being shot, authorities said.
This isn’t the first run-in police had with Inez and her husband, as previously reported by News 19.
In November 2020, Inez was charged with second-degree assault after shooting at her husband 14 times in a hotel parking lot, police said. However, none of the 14 shots hit her husband and he only had minor injuries from shrapnel, authorities said.
Inez’s bond was set at $75,000 after her arrest for the alleged murder.
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