Man who fired multiple rounds at his wife says she begged him to end her life after suffering a stroke
70-year-old Thomas Ballenger was charged with murder and denied bond in the shooting death of his wife Rebecca at the Woodlands Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
A Mississippi man has been accused of shooting and killing his wife of 40 years in what authorities believe was a "mercy killing." 70-year-old Thomas Ballenger was arrested by the police after firing multiple rounds at his wife at a rehab center in Clinton, with an officer commenting that this was "the saddest crime" he's ever worked on.
According to the Daily Mail, Ballenger told the investigators at the Clinton Police Department where he was taken to that he had shot and killed his 70-year-old wife Rebecca because she had suffered a stroke recently and told him that she didn't want to live like that anymore.