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Mobile County murder suspect arrested after deadly shooting
UPDATE (3:15 p.m.): has learned new details in the case of a Wilmer woman arrested after sheriff's deputies say she shot a man with a shotgun.
The Mobile County Sheriff's Office responded to the shooting just before 11 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Mort Road in Wilmer.
When deputies got inside the home, they found the victim, 58-year-old Andre Griffin, with a gunshot to the head, and his hands in casts.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
News 5 has learned that the victim and the suspect, Velma Edwards-Nix, 62, were in a relationship, and they were living together.
Nix told deputies Griffin tried to choke her, prompting her to shoot him before she went to a neighbor's home to call 911.
Nix was booked into Metro Jail at 4:45 Wednesday morning.
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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested a woman accused of shooting a man to death in Wilmer.
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Deputies responded around 10:51 p.m. Tuesday to the 14000 block of Mort Road in response to a reported shooting.
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There, they found Andre Griffin, 58, dead inside the home with a gunshot wound to his head and both hands in casts, an MSCO news release said.
Velma Edwards-Nix, 62, who reportedly lived in the home with Griffin, 'stated Andre tried to choke her and she got her shotgun and shot Andre,' the release said.
'After she shot him, she ran to her neighbor's home and they called 911.'
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Deputies arrested Edwards-Nix and charged her with murder.
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