Police in
Columbus, Ohio are probing the actions of a man in one of the strangest domestic cases they've seen in a while. It follows the arrest of a man charged with shooting his wife. Sadly, that's not all that unusual any more but the circumstances are.
He claims it happened while the couple was having sex.
Timothy Havens (top left) dialed 911 after the gun went off in the middle of their supposed moment of passion. He claims he was reaching for something on the night stand when the weapon discharged and a bullet hit his wife Carolyn in the chest.
"Where was she shot at?" asks the dispatcher as an ambulance heads toward their home.
"Upper right in the chest," he responds.
"Where was the gun laying beside the bed at Tim?" the operator continues.
"Right beside the bed," comes the reply. "I picked it up and put it off to the side. We were having sex and it went off," he's heard telling authorities.
But police have reason to wonder if the story Havens is telling is true. Court documents show the Ohio man had been given a 60-day suspended sentence for assaulting his wife in October. He was ordered to take anger management classes to control his temper and she took out a protection order against him.
Carolyn Havens remain in critical condition in hospital after the shooting and it's not clear if police have been able to question her.
It's also not known how Havens got back into the house or why she would agree to have sex with a man she seemed to fear.
He's since been put in jail for violating the judge's order.
A grand jury will consider whether to indict him for this incident on December 11th.