A Murfreesboro, TN bride pulled her 9 mm from under her wedding dress and dry fired it at her husband’s head.
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” or so said Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Bard of Avon absolutely understood the nature of relationships. His statement has proven prophetic more than once.
Police have to respond to domestic disputes in record amounts. There are so many, in fact, that from 2003 to 2012, family strife accounted for 20 percent of all violent crime in the country. There’s even a “domestic violence awareness” month each year.
However, one Tennessee bride didn’t wait for the honeymoon to be over before she was firing shots at her new husband, literally.
The CDC reports that one in three women and one in four men will be the victim of a domestic assault in their lifetime, and younger women are more susceptible to an attack.
According to law enforcement officials, Kate Elizabeth Prichard was still in her wedding dress when she whipped out her handgun and threatened her new hubby.
Sgt. Kyle Evans with the Murfreesboro Police Department told reporters that the responding officers discovered the couple arguing at a motel room just hours after the ceremony.
Sergeant Evans explained the altercation to reporters saying that Prichard did fire her handgun into the air.
Witnesses at the Clarion Inn in Murfreesboro called law enforcement when Prichard fired her weapon in the air. She also pointed the gun at her new husband’s head during the altercation.
This isn’t the first time a bride has lost her temper or purposely executed her new husband. Na Cola Darcel Franklin said she didn’t mean to kill her 36-year-old groom Billy Brewster when she stabbed him at their Whitehall Township apartment hours before their wedding.
Franklin was convicted, but tried to appeal, saying that she wasn’t a “criminal,” or a “murderer.” She called stabbing her groom to death an accident, and a least her crime was one of passion.
Cody Lee Johnson plummeted to his death after his wife of one week pushed him off a cliff at Glacier National Park. Jordan Linn Graham married Johnson, but according to friends, was always “reserved,” during the courtship.
Prichard was arrested for aggravated assault, but posted bond later that evening.
FBI agents who investigated the death say that Graham purposely killed her groom and then covered up her deed. Officials eventually got her to admit pushing Johnson off the cliff, and she was convicted of murder in 2013, She was sentenced to 30 years in prison for “having doubts” about the marriage enough to kill for them.
Others saw the Murfreesboro couple drinking and arguing outside their room. They watched the tiff steadily escalate. Evans explained that, “She pulled out of her wedding dress a 9 mm pistol. Pointed it at her new husband’s head and pulled the trigger.”
Fortunately, at that point the gun wasn’t loaded. The bride then chambered a round and fired her gun in the air. She must have been stupid or so angry that she wasn’t thinking straight, because everyone who owns a firearm knows the three rules of gun safety.
Witnesses said that the couple were outside drinking and arguing before Mrs. Prichard fired her hand gun.
The rules are, the gun is always loaded, never put your finger on the trigger till you’re ready to fire, and never allow the muzzle to pass over anything you aren’t willing to destroy. From all reports, it doesn’t seem likely that Prichard understood gun safety. Her actions were highly emotional and idiotic. Perhaps a few hours of marriage was all she could take and she really intended to kill her new husband. No one knows for sure.
Officials at the scene found the couple temporarily united. The newlyweds said nothing was wrong. Evans explained that it was actually a witness who pointed the officers in the right direction. They discovered a shell casing that appears to have been ejected from Prichard’s gun.
According to Evans, the bride hid the weapon in the bathroom of the hotel room, trying to pretend that the incident didn’t happen. However, she has been charged with aggravated assault. She joins her husband in that. In 2015, James Jarid Burton was part of a shooting in Clarksville, TN and held on aggravated assault charges, too.
Prichard posted a $15,000 bond but was unavailable for comment. Perhaps the couple had some sort of honeymoon after all.
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