Posted: Dec 17, 2009 6:12 PM EST
Updated: Dec 17, 2009 6:12 PM EST
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CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - A Charleston County jury found 60-year-old Bobby Sloan guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter Thursday. Sloan killed his wife, Darlene Sloan, December 25th, 2008.
Sloan and his wife got in an argument after leaving a nightclub, early that morning. When they got back downtown, where they were staying, Sloan pulled out a .38 caliber Revolver, fired one shot at close range, hitting his wife in the head.
The couple was visiting from Georgia. Sloan's mother-in-law witnessed the murder. She testified that she saw the defendant raise his hand towards her daughter shortly before she saw a bright flash. She then saw her daughter fall to the ground.
Sloan's defense was that he just wanted to threaten or intimidate his wife, but never meant to shoot her.
"The latest stats show that South Carolina consistently ranks in the top 10 states for women being killed by men. The rate of women killed by men they knew is almost twice that of the national average," said Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson. Wilson stated, "We refused the notion of an 'accident' being someone threatening their spouse during a heated argument, waiving a handgun in their face and putting a bullet in their head. Fortunately, the judge and jury did, too."
Circuit Court Judge Roger Young, Sr., sentenced Sloan to 20 years in prison for the shooting death.
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