Six months after a Magna lady claimed she shot her husband in self-defense, she has been charged with killing him.
Cynthia Lynn Vincent, 41, was once charged in third District Court docket with homicide, a first-degree legal.
At 12:28 a.m. on July 6, Vincent known as 911 and reported that she had shot her husband, Michael, on the Magna martial arts studio they owned — Vincent’s Area of Goju at 9145 W. Major St. When officials arrived, they discovered the frame of Michael Vincent simply within the principle front. A revolver was once subsequent to his frame, and Cynthia Vincent advised police she shot her husband with the gun.
In keeping with a likely purpose observation, Cynthia Vincent advised police she and her husband have been preventing all weekend and that, in a while ahead of the capturing, he had “assaulted and strangled” her. She stated that her husband “lunged” at her and she or he fired the gun.
Witnesses advised police that, in a while ahead of the capturing, Cynthia Vincent known as them and stated, “He assists in keeping coming at me. I’m scared. Come and get him ahead of I kill him. I’ve my gun out.”
Police stated that Cynthia Vincent’s clarification of the place she and her husband had been when she shot him and the place his frame fell “didn’t make sense.” And, they added, when she “attempted to provide an explanation for the occasions once more” she “gave the look to be guessing at the place they had been status all over the capturing.” In keeping with police, “the proof is in step with Michael leaving throughout the entrance door of the trade when he was once shot within the aspect of the top.”
Surveillance video on the trade confirmed Cynthia and Michael Vincent “interacting most often … all through the day” main as much as the capturing, in step with the possible purpose observation. Cynthia Vincent was once observed “enticing in dialog” together with her husband, “and embracing and kissing him.”
About two hours ahead of the capturing, Michael “perceived to kiss” his spouse as he stepped out of doors the entrance door to smoke. Whilst there’s no video of the capturing itself, “at no level within the to be had video is any violence noticed,” in step with police.
On Tuesday, Cynthia Vincent was once booked into the Salt Lake County prison, the place she is being held with out bail.
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