Man who fired multiple rounds at his wife says she begged him to end her life after suffering a stro
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 , 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.
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