Woman ‘kills estranged husband’ decades after she shot her boyfriend dead
er daughter, Lekesha Broadhead, has since spoken out in defense of her mother, claiming that both cases against her mother deal with domestic violence.
A woman killed her estranged husband more than 30 years after she shot her boyfriend dead, police say.
Clyretha Grayson, 59, is charged with murdering her husband, 55-year-old Antonio Grayson, who was found dead at Clyretha’s home in Mobile, Alabama in September.
Authorities said Antonio Grayson died of blunt force trauma from an ‘unknown object.’
Clyretha was convicted of manslaughter in 1987 for killing her partner Larry Cade.
Her daughter, Lekesha Broadhead, has since spoken out in defense of her mother, claiming that both cases against her mother deal with domestic violence.
Broadhead told WKRG her mother saved her from Cade, her stepfather, who she said was violent and abusive.
She said: ‘He had me at the door with a knife…She came back to the house and went to the back area to start getting us out of the window. ‘
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‘He came out the back door and he had me and another sibling in his hands, and so she had a registered gun, so she was frightened, you know, that he was going to do something to us. One thing led to another one and began shooting,‘ Broadhead said.
Grayson was sentenced to five years in jail for killing Cade.
Woman 'kills estranged husband' decades after she shot her boyfriend dead
Antonio Grayson was also a serial domestic abuser, according to court documents that reveal 15 arrests for domestic violence since 2001.
Broadhead said her mother had tried to get away from her estranged husband, but he had gone after her, although she said she has no idea how he got into her house.
‘He found her one time before. She had moved somewhere else and he found her,’ she said, adding that her mother has not heavy blunt objects in her home that she could have hit Grayson with.
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‘She doesn’t have anything heavy in the house to have hit him to have blunt trauma. There’s nothing that they found in the house, so I’m just trying to figure out how would they assume that it was her fault that she murdered him?,’ Broadhead said.
Clyretha Grayson is out of jail on bond and is set to reappear in court on December 12. Broadhead said she and her siblings plan to help her mother fight the charges.