(AP) – A woman charged with second-degree murder in the fatal
shooting of a western Missouri police officer says she didn’t have any reason to believe the officers were in danger when she let them enter her home.Tammy Widger was charged Wednesday in the March 6 death of Clinton police
officer Ryan Morton, who was gunned down by a man inside Widger’s home. The suspect, James Waters, also wounded two other officers before he died of gunshot wounds.
shooting of a western Missouri police officer says she didn’t have any reason to believe the officers were in danger when she let them enter her home.Tammy Widger was charged Wednesday in the March 6 death of Clinton police
officer Ryan Morton, who was gunned down by a man inside Widger’s home. The suspect, James Waters, also wounded two other officers before he died of gunshot wounds.
Widger told The Kansas City Star on Wednesday from the Henry County jail that she thought Waters had left the house to avoid the police. She says she didn’t know Waters had a gun and was inside the home with the officers when the shooting started.
Officers told her to go outside and when she did, she was handcuffed and
arrested.
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