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News » Schmidt asks jurors to consider lesser charges
Mar. 5, 2010
A former Appleton firefighter charged with murdering his estranged wife is asking jurors to consider lesser charges.
In Outagamie County court this morning Scott Schmidt's attorney, Greg Petit, said his client killed Kelly Wing Schmidt, but that wasn't his intent the day that he went to her Grand Chute home.
He says Schmidt wanted to confront Wing Schmidt and her boyfriend before they went to Chicago for the weekend, and then patch things up with her.
Prosecutors charged Schmidt with first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a life sentence. Petit wants jurors to consider a reckless homicide charge instead.
Appleton Police Lt. Charles Klauck was the first officer on the scene. He says he saw Schmidt standing over Wing Schmidt's body while holding a gun.
Klauck told Petit that Wing Schmidt's mother, Barbara Wing, was standing near the front door of the house. Schmidt also shot Wing in the chest, but she survived.
Klauck says Schmidt told him "I had to do it" as he was putting Schmidt in a squad car.
Prosecutors say Schmidt went to Wing Schmidt's to kill his estranged wife. District Attorney Carrie Schneider told jurors Schmidt's gun had nine bullets in it, and he shot Wing Schmidt in the head three times. |
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