A Wichita woman who shot and killed her 16-year-old son last year while trying to scare the teen into behaving was sentenced to 194 months in prison Friday.
Tesha Florence, 47, was initially charged with intentional second degree murder last October after putting a gun to her 16-year-old son’s head and shooting him in their east Wichita apartment. Robert Florence, who was staying home from school, was “pushing her buttons,” court documents said, “pulling down the curtains and tearing up bits of paper and throwing them on the floor.”
When he reached for her purse, which contained her Ruger 9mm handgun, Florence took the handbag and firearm and asked him “Do you just want to die?” Then, an affidavit read, the gun went off, striking the teen in the head. He was pronounced dead two days later, on Oct. 11…