AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man who is charged with murder for allegedly shooting his wife told police the gun discharged when he threw it on their bed, early Sunday morning. Austin police were called to the family’s home on Walton Heath Circle in southeast Austin at 12:23 a.m. Sunday.
Their teenage daughter told police she was talking to a friend on the phone when she heard her parents arguing in their bedroom.
When their daughter heard a noise, she went to the bedroom where she found her father, Michael Volmer, 42, standing next to her mother applying pressure to a wound on her torso. The teenager told officers she saw a handgun on the bed next to them, with the barrel pointed toward her mother, 40-year-old Nicole Volmer.
The man told his daughter, “I threw the gun onto the bed and it went off,” according to a police affidavit. The girl said her mother said nothing in response except, “I love you” and “follow Jesus” as she drifted in and out of consciousness.
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Their teenage daughter told police she was talking to a friend on the phone when she heard her parents arguing in their bedroom.
When their daughter heard a noise, she went to the bedroom where she found her father, Michael Volmer, 42, standing next to her mother applying pressure to a wound on her torso. The teenager told officers she saw a handgun on the bed next to them, with the barrel pointed toward her mother, 40-year-old Nicole Volmer.
The man told his daughter, “I threw the gun onto the bed and it went off,” according to a police affidavit. The girl said her mother said nothing in response except, “I love you” and “follow Jesus” as she drifted in and out of consciousness.
more:
http://kxan.com/2016/12/20/husband-claims-gun-fired-when-he-threw-it-on-bed-killing-wife/