Overview
- Sheri Mitchell-Clutts, 65, called 911 just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 10, to report she shot her husband at their Russellville home.
- Deputies found Timothy Clutts, 69, dead in a living room recliner with a single gunshot wound to the chest and recovered a handgun on a cooler nearby.
- Investigators say she first told dispatchers she felt threatened, then admitted she was annoyed by his repeated check-ins during her recovery from open-heart surgery two weeks earlier, and officials said he made no verbal threats.
- She was arrested on a murder charge and is being held at the Franklin County Jail without bond, with a court hearing pending.
- Detectives are examining the couple’s history and say six years of call logs show no domestic-related reports, a review they are continuing as they build the case.