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Scorned woman, 78, accused of killing ex-beau
Associated Press
Published June 25, 2005
ATLANTA - Furious that their romance was ending, a 78-year-old great-grandmother shot her 85-year-old ex-beau to death as he read the newspaper in a senior citizens home, police said.
"I did it and I'd do it again!" Lena Driskell yelled to officers who arrived at the home June 10, according to testimony. Police said she was wearing a bathrobe and slippers, waving an antique handgun with her finger still on the trigger.
She is accused of plotting the shooting of Herman Winslow because she was angry that their yearlong romance was ending and he had found another companion.
Driskell was released on $25,000 bail and placed under house arrest after a hearing Friday.
After the breakup with Winslow, she kept showing up uninvited at his apartment in Hightower Manor, the complex for seniors where they lived, Detective D.B. Mathis said. A security guard tried to calm her down, but Driskell drew out her gun, pressed it to Winslow's head and fired as many as four times, Mathis said.
At the hearing Friday, defense attorney Deborah Poole stressed Driskell's clean criminal record and said she'd had the gun since 1957. "She's not a threat to anyone," Poole said.
Her granddaughter, who was named for her, said Driskell and Winslow had shared a bank account and a love for traveling.
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