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Florida man fatally shoots wife in front of grandchildren just days after buying her a Mercedes, says she was cheating on him

Eddie had claimed on FB that Shanica and her boyfriend were trying to kill him, regretting that he had given her a Merc as a gift
UPDATED MAR 19, 2020
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A Florida man allegedly shot his wife of 33 years and mother of their five children after suspecting that she was cheating on him with another man.

The police identified the couple as grandparents Eddie and Shanica Harris, according to the Miami Herald. Eddie is said to have shot her in their Liberty City home on September 28 in front of two children who were at home with them. The two kids were aged 6 and 9 and were rescued by the Special Response Team through a window. Eddie had sustained a gunshot injury as well and the police suspect he had shot himself. The children were not hurt.

Eddie and Shanica's love life had been all over Facebook and Eddie suspected that she had been seeing someone else. Her latest social media post was her showing off a brand new silver Mercedes that her husband had bought her. "Now he knows I love red cars!!! But OMG!!!!!!!!! Why couldn’t I pick out my own car," she said alongside a picture of the gift, wrapped with a red bow. However, Eddie's social media posts had been harrowing. 

He had claimed in a post on September 28 that Shanica had been trying to kill him along with her boyfriend. "Shanicaharris got them trying to kill me", he said in a post. In another status update, he said they had been trying to hurt him and his son. He also said that he regretted buying her the car and that he "wasted" his money on it. He suspected her boyfriend rode around the home in a "white impala" and claimed she also cheated on him on the train. 

Shanica's sister told Local 10 that it was Eddie who had killed her sister. The two had been together since they were 15. Thomasina Goddard said, "He barricaded himself in the house and kept my sister at blood death, with my grandniece and grandnephew in the house," Goddard said. "My sister was the sweetest girl you would've known," Goddard said. "She worked very hard for her kids and family." 

In 2016, another member of the family, Eddie Harris Jr., was shot to death.

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