A choose messaged colleagues to say he could not make work tomorrow after he “lost it” and killed his spouse, in response to prosecutors.
Jeffrey Ferguson, 72, is alleged to have drunkenly texted a courtroom clerk and bailiff minutes after the alleged homicide, telling them: “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry.”
The couple had been arguing at a restaurant on 3 August and the row continued after they received to their dwelling in Anaheim Hills in California‘s Orange County, courtroom papers declare.
The choose is alleged to have pulled a pistol from his ankle holster and shot his spouse Sheryl after she stated one thing to the impact of: “Why don’t you point a real gun at me?”
The couple’s grownup son known as 911, in response to the courtroom submitting, with Ferguson smelling of alcohol when police arrived and telling them: “Oh man I can’t believe I did this.”
A complete of 47 legally owned weapons and 26,000 rounds of ammunition had been discovered at his dwelling.
Ferguson has been charged with homicide however was freed a day after the capturing on $1m (£787,000) bail – as prosecutors attempt to get him to give up his passport and weapons and put on an ankle tag.
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Ferguson’s attorneys issued a press release calling it a “tragedy for the entire Ferguson family” and stated “it was an accident and nothing more”.
Ferguson has been a choose since 2015 and offers with prison circumstances within the Orange County metropolis of Fullerton.
He will subsequent seem in courtroom for his arraignment on 1 September.
Source: information.sky.com”