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2009-04-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Woman shot in the head, offers responding deputies tea

Bet she's a peach
A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday. Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalized three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife. A bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, authorities said. She is expected to fully recover.

"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God," said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Miss.

Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton's husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.

He showed up at their home in rural Jackson County in Southeast Mississippi about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.

"She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head," Byrd said. "Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself."

A deputy was greeted by the woman when he arrived minutes after she was shot with the slug from a .380-caliber handgun.

"When the officer got there she said, `What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened," he said. "She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink."

Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman's brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to a Mobile hospital by a helicopter.
God moves in mysterious ways?

Posted by Frank G 2009-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 As a helps meet.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-04-23 05:22|| 2009-04-23 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 My prayers go out to her.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-04-23 09:00|| 2009-04-23 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm personally delighted Donnie Ray's round of bullet proved instantly fatal.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-23 10:49|| 2009-04-23 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 But...but...but this can't be.

He had a restraining order against him!

That's all you need to keep murderous husbands away, right?

Right?

**crickets**

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-23 16:07|| 2009-04-23 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I just read a story about a woman in Detroit (natch) who was shot at and docs say her life was saved when the bullet hit the wire in her underwire BRA!

So, a restraining order and GOOD bra seem to be the order of the day LOL.

Posted by Zorba Craising6734 2009-04-23 16:44|| 2009-04-23 16:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman's brain without causing major damage"

I see cruel sexist jokes coming up, more if she is blonde

Posted by European Conservative 2009-04-23 17:17|| 2009-04-23 17:17|| Front Page Top

#7 If you want to make jokes you can use the fact that over the years two San Francisco union leaders were shot in the head with no ill effects

Posted by Thrusoque Bourbon5598 2009-04-23 17:58|| 2009-04-23 17:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Clarification. There were no "noticable" effects. Some think that the fact they survived was an "ill" effect.

Posted by Thrusoque Bourbon5598 2009-04-23 18:10|| 2009-04-23 18:10|| Front Page Top

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