JACKSON – A spokesman for the Jackson Police Department said a woman who shot and killed her husband while shooting at a dog has not been charged in his death but the case will be presented to the grand jury. On Monday, July 18, Betty Walker, 52, of Houston, Texas, told police a dog, an 8-month old pit bull named Cocaine, lunged at her grandchildren while she and her husband were visiting her son at his home in the 2100 block of Oakhurst Drive.
Walker and her husband, 53-year old Robert Walker, were in the backyard when the dog reportedly jumped the fence and ran toward the children.
“It was one of her neighbor’s dog one or two houses down,” said Jackson Police Officer Colendula Green. “She said the dog was attacking her grandkids, so she took the grandchildren in the house, got the gun and came back out with it.”
Robert was reportedly holding the dog when his wife fired two shots with a .38 caliber revolver.
Walker shot the dog in the leg and her husband in the chest.
Green, who responded to the scene, said when she arrived, Walker was sitting on the ground, crying.
“Her son came out of the house and she kept saying, ‘I shot your daddy.’ ‘I shot your daddy,'” Green said.
Before police arrived, the couple‘s son, Robert Walker Jr., a Jackson deejay known as ‘Mista Maine’ on 97.7, reportedly loaded his father into his truck and took him to an area hospital.
Green said shortly after the elder Robert arrived at University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) he was pronounced dead.
Green said Walker was brought to police headquarters where she was questioned by investigators. Several neighbors were also questioned and they told police they didn’t see the dog attack the children.
“They said there was no attack,” said Green. “But we’re gathering witness statements trying to determine the outcome of the situation.”
Walker has not been charged with her husbands death, but Green said once the facts are presented to the grand jury, that could change.
“It should be considered a murder and they will determine the fate of that subject,” Green said. “And once the case is presented it may be reduced to a lesser charge of manslaughter. But there are two investigations. One is considered a homicide and animal control, which has custody of Cocaine, is doing their own investigation to see if the dog is deemed a danger to others.”
The owner of the dog, Lazarius Montgomery, who claims he was asleep at the time of the incident, could also face criminal charges.
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