CARUTHERSVILLE - A Bragg City woman is charged in the shooting death Saturday of her husband.
At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Pemiscot County received a 911 call from a residence stating a man was shot and an ambulance was needed. When Pemiscot County deputies arrived they found Gregory Allen Abbott, 31, of Bragg City in the bedroom of the home and determined he was dead.
Stephanie Abbott, 29, told officers she had accidentally shot the man with a .20 gauge shotgun.
Following an investigation by the sheriff's department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime, Mrs. Abbott was taken into custody. Charges of second degree murder were filed by Pemiscot County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Hazel.
She is being held in the Pemiscot County Jail, with a court hearing set for today in Division II of Pemiscot County Circuit Court before Judge Byron D. Luber.