VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A woman who shot and wounded her husband with a shotgun because he was having an affair was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in Vancouver.
The Columbian reports 54-year-old Sheryl J. Martin of Ridgefield was convicted in October of attempted murder. She had said she was driven to violence by her husband’s neglect and emotional abuse.
Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson told Martin her action’s were deliberate when she shot her husband twice, reloaded and shot him twice more in the legs and arm.
The husband who wanted a divorce, Eddie Martin, thought he was dying but survived. He says between shots his wife yelled, “If I can’t have you, nobody can.”
