Woman who gunned down 'threatening' estranged husband is shot by police

 

A homeowner was shot and handcuffed by police after she gunned down her estranged husband who allegedly broke into her house and tried to kill her.
Lisa Skinner, 52, blasted her estranged husband Bradley Skinner, 59, after he threatened her with a knife and a gun.
She was then struck by police gun fire when she did not immediately drop her own weapons.
He is now fighting for his life in hospital, whereas she is in a stable but critical condition, according to AL.com .

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Paramedics tend to Bradley Skinner while Lisa Skinner lies handcuffed on the ground in Huntsville, Alabama

Police said Mr Skinner broke the glass out of a back door of the home in South Huntsville, Alabama, USA, which his estranged wife shared with her mother at around 6pm on Sunday.
Mrs Skinner, who believed her husband wanted to make her the victim of a murder/suicide, armed herself with a shotgun then went into the garage.
He followed her and aimed his pistol at her.
She then opened fire with a shotgun, hitting him in the chest.

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Lisa Skinner is taken to an ambulance where a man and a woman were shot Sunday evening

Her mother ran from the house in the 2500 block of Bonnie Oaks Drive to a neighbour's home and called 911.
Officers from Huntsville police arrived on scene and heard gunshots ring out and saw Mrs Skinner in the garage holding the shotgun.
They demanded she drop her weapon but when she turned toward them with the gun in her hand, at least one officer fired at her, wounding, but not killing her.

Both she and her husband were taken to Huntsville Hospital.

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Bradley Skinner

Lieutenant Darryl Lawson said the shootings took place after the man broke into the rear of the house armed with a gun and a knife.
Several neighbors reportedly heard the gunfire on the normally quiet street, according to AL.com.
Neighbour Angela Humlicek, who lives across the street, said she heard a single shot and, when she went to see what the noise was, she helped the woman's mother to safety.

Records show science teacher Mrs Skinner had several restraining orders against her estranged husband, according to WHNT 19 News, and lived in fear of violence from him.
Mrs Skinner's petitions to the court describe her estranged husband, who she was divorcing after almost 11 years, as a "clever, gifted manipulator" who was heavily armed.

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A man and a woman were shot Sunday evening when multiple rounds of gunfire - including from police - rang out in a south Huntsville neighborhood

In February, a Madison County judge prohibited Mr Skinner from going within 100 yards of the Bonnie Oaks Drive home where Sunday's shooting occurred.
He was arrested on February 21 on charges of harassing communications and domestic violence by harassment.
Mrs Skinner described him as a "mercurial" man who abused alcohol and prescription and illegal drugs and said he had begun speaking about his death.

She wrote: "On [February 18] he began talking about dying and had often mentioned that he wanted to 'take out all of his enemies and die by PoPo,' meaning he wished the police would kill him after he had killed his enemies.
"I am certainly now an enemy."

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A man and a woman were shot Sunday evening when multiple rounds of gunfire - including from police - rang out in a south Huntsville neighborhood. The shooting occurred around 6 p.m. at a home in the 2500 block of Bonnie Oaks Drive

The following day she did not return home after he started obsessively texting threats to her daughter and the daughter's friend saying that he didn't have much time left.
"I left in fear of becoming a victim of murder/suicide," she wrote.
And as recently as Friday, Mr Skinner had been ordered - again - to have no contact with his estranged wife or her family.
He was also ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation prior to a court hearing next month in the couple's divorce.
Meanwhile, the officer who shot the woman has been placed on administrative leave.

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A woman lies handcuffed on the ground where a man and a woman were shot Sunday evening when multiple rounds of gunfire - including from police - rang out in a south Huntsville neighborhood