Husband's death called tragedy
2004-03-08
By The Associated Press
ROSE -- A northeastern Oklahoma woman who shot and killed her husband while the two were arguing about a television talk show said she was trying to warn him, not kill him.
District Attorney Gene Haynes has said he doesn't plan to file charges against Teri Lynn Carver in the Feb. 24 incident at her Rose home.
Carver, 35, said she shot her husband, Cecil, after he punched her and shot at her while they argued about a Montel Williams talk show episode titled "Surviving a Lover's Attack."
"I look at this as a complete and utter tragedy," Carver said. "I will always be married to my husband. I will always love my husband."
The argument started while she and her husband were in bed. She cited some statistics on the screen, said something about "treacherous people" and her husband snapped, Carver said.
"He just went off," Carver said. "He just changed from him to the devil."
Cecil Carver went to the living room to get a .22- caliber pistol, returned and pointed it at the middle of her forehead, Carver said. She said she dared him to shoot her.
After he fired a warning shot, she tried to call 911 and, after a struggle for the phone, she managed to grab the handgun, she said.
Holding his hands roughly shoulder-high in front of him, Cecil Carver said, 'Don't, Teri, don't,' just before he was shot from about eight feet away, she said.
"This was not supposed to happen," Carver said. "I wasn't aiming at him. My thought was, 'Go to the right. Go to the right.'"
Cecil Carver, 38, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, an autopsy report showed.
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