Thursday, July 22, 2010

Fresno, CA: Fresno man on trial in wife's death

Posted at 12:01 PM on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010
By Pablo Lopez / The Fresno Bee

A trial began today for a Fresno man suspected of fatally shooting his 27-year-old wife inside their home in November 2005.
Charles Deangelo Kendricks, 34, is charged in Fresno County Superior Court with murder in the death of Tiffany Carter, whose body was found inside the couple’s southeast Fresno home on Nov. 1, 2005.
She was shot in the head, prosecutor Steve Wright said this morning in opening statements of the trial.
Defense attorney Barbara O’Neill, however, told jurors Carter committed suicide.
In opening remarks, Wright said a pathologist will testify that Carter’s death was a homicide. He also said Kendricks hid the gun after his wife death and ran from police.

O’Neill told jurors her client panicked because he believed police would blame him for his wife’s death. She also said Carter left two suicide notes.

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