Naomi Judd suicide: Tennessee police refuse to reveal how country singer got gun she killed herself with
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE: Tennessee investigators have allegedly been tight-lipped about how troubled country singer Naomi Judd obtained the Glock handgun she used to kill herself by suicide on April 30 last year.
The ‘Love is Alive’ hit-maker, 76, was found dead in her bedroom by her daughter Ashley Judd at their famous Tennessee ranch. Official files on the investigation into her death revealed that first responders recovered a suicide note and several other crucial pieces of evidence from her bedroom. The files, released earlier this week, also stated that Naomi was experiencing severe manic episodes and had made around a dozen threats to shoot herself. However, it didn’t disclose how the troubled singer acquired the firearm.
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Additionally, Williamson County Sheriff's Office also refused to divulge the identity of the handgun’s owner. As per Radar Online, Sharon Puckett, the sheriff's office's public information officer, referred any inquiries to the county's law firm, which chose to remain silent when asked if the police knew how Naomi obtained the weapon.
“The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office does not typically entertain interview questions from out-of-state media related to our criminal investigations,” legal eagle Courtney King of the Tennessee law firm Buerger Moseley & Carson PLC told the outlet in an email. “Our practice is to produce records responsive to requests made by Tennessee citizens as provided by state law.”
This came after a well-established public investigator told RadarOnline that the Judd family had a responsibility to keep all dangerous weapons away from the singer, who had a history of mental illness and even threatened to kill herself. “If she threatened to kill herself with a gun and they knew that she had a gun, I would say they had the moral obligation to get the gun away from her,” Huebl told the outlet. “The fact of the matter is people that want to kill themselves find a way to do it, so she found a way to do it. I’m not going to say if it was any easier.”
Meanwhile, handwritten notes from the sheriff’s deputy who responded to Naomi’s home also indicated that the singer was tormented by the fact that she was losing her esteemed singing voice. “Naomi had started losing her voice 10-12 years ago,” read notes by the Williamson County Sheriff's deputy obtained by Radar Online. “She probably doesn’t have one now.” The journal continued, “Live Nation concert, 8 shows after induction (into the Country Music Hall of Fame), she was high drama,” apparently referring to an upcoming tour with her daughter Wynonna Judd.