A woman is dead and her boyfriend was arrested for her murder.
St. Clair County Sheriff’s Chief Investigator Joe Sweatt said Roger Gladney, 39, of 6767 Chandler Mountain Road, is being held in the St. Clair County Jail in Ashville and charged with murder after he alledgedly shot and killed his girlfriend, Betty Jean Cannon, 43, of Rainbow City, early Friday morning.
Sweatt said the shooting occurred at Gladney’s residence and alcohol was involved.
“They apparently were drinking and got into a domestic argument,” Sweatt said. “She was in the bed when he shot her with a .40-caliber handgun one time in the head. She had been living with him for about three years.”
Sweatt said Gladney called 911 shortly after the shooting. Central Dispatch received the call at 1:02 a.m.
“As soon as officers arrived, he admitted to shooting her,” Sweatt said. “He was taken into custody for questioning not long after the shooting.”
St. Clair County Coroner Dennis Russell said Cannon was transported to Gadsden Regional Hospital and was pronounced dead at 2:20 a.m. by the emergency room doctor.
“The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head,” Russell said. “She was transported to the St. Clair County Coroner’s Office in Pell City where she was then transported to the Alabama Department of Forensics Sciences in Huntsville for an autopsy.”
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