The suspect later allegedly police she “was trying to be like Bonnie and Clyde.”
A Texas woman will face manslaughter charges after her boyfriend was shot dead in their Austin home just before Christmas, police said yesterday.
Autumn King, 20, told detectives that she had been posing with a firearm and aiming it directly at her partner, Eric Charles Allen, 26, when it accidentally went off. The picture was intended for Snapchat, King said. The incident occurred with two children inside the residence.
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The fatal shooting occurred on December 23 at just after 12:30 p.m. The suspect was arrested on Monday in Pflugerville, Texas, and booked into the Travis County jail, officials confirmed.
“Allen, who held King’s phone up with his hand, was going to take a Snapchat photo of her when she accidentally pulled the trigger,” law enforcement said.
