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A man, Ernest Chris Chumbley, fatally shot his wife of over 20 years, Virginia Chumbley after she allegedly begged him to end her suffering from cancer.
“I shot her,” Chumbley said while incarcerated at Laurel County jail. “She died from my shots, but it’s not murder.”
He called the police after the shots to confess crying throughout the call.
Virginia Wembley suffered from breast cancer for many years before the fateful day and was in severe pain everyday.
“I just did what she asked,” he said. “And I would expect no different from her if I was asking her.”
He was arrested without incident in the living room.
“The only reason I could think he shot her is she probably asked him to, because she was hurting so bad,” a neighbour, Stan Campbell said.
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