Wife allegedly shoots husband for removing her from insurance policy
A West Virginia woman upset because her husband removed her as a beneficiary on his insurance policy allegedly shot him Oct. 21.
Flor Demaria Slone, 41, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was being held Thursday at Eastern Regional Jail without bond on felony counts of kidnapping and malicious assault, according to court records.
Her husband, Stephen K. Slone, 45, was being treated at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., after being shot in the chest at his home in Inwood, W.Va., according to an article in the Herald-Mail newspaper.
The couple, which had been separated came together when the woman approached her husband’s house and he opened the door, according to the report. After about three hours, she allegedly pointed a .22 caliber pistol at his head, then picked up a pillow and fired one shot through it, which missed. The second shot hit him in the right chest and exited his back, the newspaper reported.
She then dropped the gun and he went to a neighbor’s house, where he called for help.
Sloane told police he asked his estranged wife to “watch over” his house and told her at that time that he had removed her from his insurance policy, court records cited by the paper.


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