Woman accused of shooting her husband

A Lawton woman is jailed on $500,000 bond after she was charged with shooting her husband multiple times.

Investigators said she accused her husband of trying to kill her first for insurance money.

Cerenthia Bradley Jackson, 60, made her initial appearance Thursday morning in the Comanche County District Court where she received a felony charge of shooting with intent to kill, records indicate. The crime is punishable by up to life in prison.

Comanche County deputies were called the morning of Jan. 3 to a reported possible home invasion at 485 SW Bradford Lane and were told a man had been shot in the leg and torso. The man was flown to OU Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City.

The victim’s wife, Jackson had called 911 and reported the home invasion, the probable cause affidavit states. Investigators said she reiterated that a person or people had come through the back door, found their way to the bedroom and shot her husband multiple times before fleeing. She claimed some of his unsavory friends may have been looking for money she won from the Apache Casino.

Investigators said evidence at the scene didn’t match the story and felt Jackson wasn’t being truthful. Jackson also told investigators her .40 caliber Glock pistol she kept in the hall was missing, the affidavit states.

After a few hours of questioning about the missing handgun, Jackson changed her story. She said she’d hidden it between the slats of her and her neighbor’s fence after she shot her husband as he lay sleeping in bed, according to the affidavit. She said she believed he was trying to kill her by injecting her with an unknown poison and had been for some time in an effort to collect insurance money upon her death. Investigators noted there were no signs of puncture wounds from injections to Jackson’s arms.

After being asked if her husband had sexually abused her, Jackson said he’d wanted sex and she assisted him. When he began dozing off, she said she crawled out of the bedroom, got her pistol and returned while crawling on her hands and knees before shooting him, the affidavit states.

Held on $500,000 bond, Jackson returns to court at 3 p.m. April 1 for her preliminary hearing conference, records indicate.