Alabama Woman Admits to Killing Husband For Bothering Her
By J. Thomas Wade
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
May 13, 2026
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ala. A woman called 911 on Sunday at around 7:30 p.m. and told a dispatcher that she had just killed her husband.
Emergency responders and Franklin County sheriff deputies responded to the home and found 69-year-old Timothy Clutts dead in his recliner with a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Sheriff investigators say that his wife, 65-year-old Sheri Mitchell-Clutts immediately confessed and was taken into custody.
Investigators say she later told them she was simply bothered and annoyed by him.
When Mitchell-Clutts called 911, she told dispatchers she felt threatened throughout the day leading up the shooting, but when investigators sat her down for questioning, they got a different story.
Sheriff Shannon Oliver says Mitchell-Clutts admitted right away that she shot and killed her husband of 15 years. It wasn’t until later that she told investigators she was simply bothered and annoyed by the victim.
“Her demeanor seemed obviously upset from what little interaction I had with her at the scene, but you never know what’s going through somebody’s mind,” Oliver said.
About two weeks ago, Mitchell-Clutts had open heart surgery. She allegedly told deputies her husband kept coming into her room and bothering her, so she got her gun out in case he came back. When he didn’t, investigators said she went to find him and shot him in his recliner.
Mitchell-Clutts was arrested and charged with murder. Even though Mitchell-Clutts is in custody, the investigation is ongoing. The sheriff says this is because they need to know the history and what led up to the shooting. The handgun used in the shooting was recovered by deputies.
Mitchell-Clutts was booked Sunday night into the Franklin County Jail without bond pending an Aniah’s Law hearing.
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