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Timothy Havens Says He Accidentally Shot Wife During Sex

Authorities in Springfield, Ohio, are looking into a bizarre case, in which a man claims to have accidentally shot his estranged wife while the couple was engaged in sex.

Timothy Havens, 38, placed an emergency 911 call at about 7 a.m. Sunday, and reported that a handgun had accidentally discharged, striking his wife, Carolyn Havens, 42, in the chest.

"Where was she shot at?" the operator asked.

"Upper right in the chest," Havens responded.

"Where was the gun laying beside the bed at Tim?" the operator replied.

"Right beside the bed," Havens replied. "I picked it up and put it off to the side. We were having sex and it went off."

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Paramedics transported Carolyn to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, where she remains in critical condition.

Investigators are now trying to determine if the Havens's were engaged in consensual sex and whether the shooting was truly accidental. These questions have arisen as a result of past incidents, which resulted in Carolyn obtaining a protection order against her estranged husband.

Teen Who Killed Younger Brother Over Dessert Pleads No Contest

There has been a new development in an Orlando, Florida, case that I covered last year, in which a young boy was allegedly killed by his teenage brother over desert.

On Sept. 29, 2007, 13-year-old Demetrius Key told police that he had been babysitting half a dozen children when his brother, eight-year-old Levares Key, ate a dessert he was not allowed to have. Demetrius said the incident made him angry and as punishment he punched, kicked, and choked his brother. Afterwards, he went to a nearby relative's house and told his mother, Tangela Key, 34, that his brother had "passed out."

"Demetrius offered that Levares upset him by eating a dessert that [he] was not to have eaten," Detective Appling Wells wrote in the arrest affidavit. "He also advised Levares upset him by picking a scab and causing it to bleed. Demetrius said he feared Levares would blame both circumstances on him and tell his mother he had struck him and eaten the dessert."

The injuries Levares received from the beating proved to be fatal and he was later pronounced dead at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

The Orange County Medical Examiner ruled Levares's death a homicide from closed head injuries; however during Levares's autopsy, the medical examiner found evidence of preexisting injuries, which were in various stages of healing. Those injuries, in conjunction with some 30 scars found on the child's body, led investigators to suspect that the beating resulting in his death may not have been an isolated incident.

"He had fresh injuries and he had old injuries," Orange County Sheriff's Sgt. John Allen said in a September 2007 interview with WFTV.com. "It certainly appears at this point the child has been beaten over a long period of time."

As the investigation proceeded, Demetrius was charged with first-degree murder and was remanded to the Osceola County Juvenile Detention center.

Texas Sheriff Says Half-Ton Murder Suspect is Too Obese for Jail

Investigators in Hidalgo County, Texas, have a hefty problem on their hands. More precisely, they are trying to figure out how to incarcerate a 1000-pound woman, who, they say, murdered her nephew last spring.

The case in question dates back to March 18, 2008, when 2-year-old Eliseo Gonzalez, Jr., died while in the custody of his aunt, 27-year-old Mayra Lizbeth Rosales. At the time of the incident, Rosales told police that Eliseo's death was an accident. She said the youngster had fallen off a chair and that, when she reached down to pick him up, she slipped and her right hand landed on the top of his head, killing him. However, a post-mortem examination later revealed that Eliseo had suffered skull crushing injuries that were "consistent with blunt force trauma." The coroner also felt that Rosales' statements were inconsistent with the child's injuries.

After reviewing the coroner's findings, a grand jury last Thursday indicted Rosales on one count of first-degree murder and one count of injury to a child. An arrest warrant was drawn up; however, deputies from the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office were unable to take Rosales into custody.

According to Sheriff Lupe Trevino, Rosales could not be removed from the bedroom of her house because she would not fit through the doorway. In addition, Trevino said the county jail was not equipped to care for anyone who weighed over 500 pounds. As a result, Rosales was booked and finger- printed at home in her bed and was released on a personal recognizance bond.

The grand jury also indicted Rosales' 20-year-old sister, Jamie Lee Rosales, Eliseo's mother, on one felony count of injury to a child. According to prosecutors, Child Protective Services had warned Jamie Rosales not to leave her children in her sister's care because she was incapable of caring for them.