WGBA -Accused Killer Takes Stand In Own Defense
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A remorseful Scott Schmidt took the stand this afternoon saying he wishes he never shot his wife Kelly Wing Schmidt...and described the details of what happened that fateful morning.
"I love my wife," Schmidt said on the stand.
A statement he made over and over again.
"I loved her, I didn't want to lose her," he says.
Schmidt told jurors he never intended to kill his wife and described the events for the jury of the final moments before he admits to shooting her.
"I remember pushing the door open and I remember hearing a shot, but I don't remember shooting her."
Schmidt says he also doesn't remember shooting his mother-in-law Barbara Wing, and says the events of that morning still haunt him to this day.
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish I didn't pull that trigger...I took the most important person in my life away out of here...I was trained to save lives not take them."
After the shooting Schmidt says he told Kelly he was sorry and then he put the gun to his own head but Kelly told him...
"Don't do it the kids need ya."
He then recalled their final exchange before police arrived.
"She asked me again whose hands were all over her and I said it was the angels coming to take her home...did you want your wife to die?...no, I didn't want her to die, but I didn't want her to be in pain either."
Schmidt will be back on the witness stand tomorrow and the case could potentially go to the jury to begin deliberations by then end of the day.
