IRVINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police say a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, woman shot and killed her husband early Wednesday. It happened just before 7 a.m. on Lonnie Haynes Road near Irvington in the Custer community.
Yellow tape was still hanging from poles near the crime scene, nearly a day after the entire street was closed during an investigation. Now a woman is charged with the murder of her husband and neighbors say his body was found in the street, wrapped in a blanket.
Neighbor Larry Gadlage says the community is usually quiet.
But on Wednesday morning around 7, KSP says they found Dennis Devers naked and dead outside the front of his home.
"He got a new girl that was pregnant," Gadlage said. "I think she's younger than him, not sure though. They had a baby. Then, I see them once or twice when I went to go talk about the pigs." Gadlage says he was always talking to the Devers about their pigs that were frequently on the loose, getting into his yard and digging holes.
Outside the gate of the Devers' home is a "No Trespassing" sign. Another sign reads "Let my aim be true and my hand faster."
His wife, Amanda Devers, is charged with shooting Dennis multiple times. Gadlage says she had talked to him about the situation before the shooting.
"She said 'I got a shotgun. If he comes, I'm going to protect myself,' Gadlage recalled. "I said 'ok.' I didn't think that would happen. I thought she was just talking. She's very young, and she's scared."
KSP investigators say an argument over personal property led to the shooting. "She sold his horses after she put him in jail," Gadlage said. "She sold his two horses because she needed money."
WDRB uncovered an emergency protective order Amanda filed against Dennis in September. She makes several accusations against her husband, and says he "put drugs in my food to attempt to dispose of me, so him and his ex could raise my son because she can no longer have children."
"He tried to stab her," Gadlage said, "so she called the cops and they came and arrested him." He says Amanda lifted up her shirt to show "just two little marks in the side, didn't look like a knife, looked like a pencil or something."
The Breckinridge County jailer says Dennis was released from jail on Oct. 18, after being there for 17 days, charged with assaulting his wife and violating an EPO. Court records show the case was dismissed a day later, at Amanda's request. Police say she killed her husband the next day.
KSP says the child is now in foster care.
During the latest dispute, police say Amanda also accidentally shot herself in the foot.
"I was in the Marine Corps," Gadlage said. "I served in three conflicts. I'm used to murder happening. I don't like it by my house."
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