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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] The paramedics are on their way. Oh my
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god, what a nightmare. What's your name? Karen. I'm in mass hysteria here in shock. I had never seen
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anything like this before. It was 4:45. I heard the three chimes in my door. that one of my four doors was
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being opened. All of a sudden, I wake up in the middle of the night and someone's
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at my house. That put me in a panic mode. I jumped up out of bed, grabbed the gun, and heard footsteps coming down
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the hallway toward my bedroom. The gun was cocked because I didn't know who it was because I felt like it was an
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intruder. I heard somebody coming in my house. I I didn't know who was coming in.
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I saw it was Phillip in the doorway. I said to him, "What are you doing here? Oh my god, you scared me to death."
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What's his name? Phillip. My boyfriend. He's your boyfriend. For the love of my life. At that point in time, I had had
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the gun up over my head. And he had come across the room and said, "Let me do it.
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I'll do it. Through my arm." And I said, "Don't don't do this." He put the gun to
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his head and I shouted, screaming at him, "Stop. Don't do it. Don't do it. It's loaded. And he told me twice, "I'm
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not going to live my life without you." And he shot himself. There's no way that he would
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ever have killed himself. He wouldn't leave his children. He loved those girls, loved
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them like I've not probably ever seen any father. I'm Karen Kelly and um back in July 27th, 2011, I was accused of
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shooting and killing my boyfriend. I just know that Philip Petro would not have been
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shot, but for what Philip Petro did when that 6'2 construction worker body guy took a
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hold of that 100B realator, she was no longer in control of that gun. and whatever happened was
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just not her fault. If you point a loaded gun at somebody or bring a loaded gun out into the argument and that gun
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goes off and kills somebody, that's not an accident. That's a homicide.