Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 14 2010 11:27 PM
By Jade Ortego
Killeen Daily Herald
BELTON — A Killeen man is charged with killing his 22-year-old girlfriend; he claims his gun accidentally went off in his hand.
Kevin Clavon Wright, 31, was indicted by a Bell County grand jury Wednesday on murder charges in connection with the Feb. 11 incident that stemmed from an argument.
While responding to a call at Wright's home in the 1100 block of Garth Drive, officers found a woman on the floor with a gunshot wound on the left side of her head behind her ear. A justice of the peace pronounced the woman, who shared the home with Wright, dead less than an hour later, at 3 a.m.
Wright admitted to police that he was arguing with his girlfriend because she came home late. He said he took his gun out of his shoulder harness and "racked a round" in an attempt to frighten her, according to the arrest affidavit.
The gun went off and she was shot in the head, Wright said. He took police to a field to the south of the apartment building and located a .40-caliber handgun with an empty magazine.
Wright could be found guilty of murder through two means: by knowingly causing the death of the woman by shooting her, or by accidentally killing her while in the course of committing another felony, aggravated assault or deadly conduct.
Contact Jade Ortego at jortego@kdhnews.com or (254) 501-7553. Follow her on Twitter at KDHcourts.
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