Widow says a wrong turn into a driveway ended with her husband dead after the homeowner confronted them with a gun

FOX13 Memphis reporter Martin Staunton says a widow is speaking publicly after her husband was shot and killed in what she describes as a split-second decision that spiraled out of control.

On FOX13’s late newscast, anchor Darcy Thomas sets the scene plainly: the widow believes a wrong turn into a stranger’s driveway ended with her husband dead, and she says she only survived because police arrived almost immediately.

The widow, Shelia Booker, opens with a line that sounds like it’s still stuck in her chest. “The police, they came so fast… If it weren’t for them, I think I’d be dead too. But they saved my life,” Booker tells FOX13…

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