‘She said it went off:’ Affidavit details Brevard woman’s arrest in friend’s fatal shooting

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Simply after 8 a.m. on April 18, a person known as the Brevard County Sheriff’s Workplace Communications Middle to report his girlfriend had been shot.

“Her good friend was displaying her a gun… she mentioned it went off,” he advised the operator.

A five-page affidavit made public Saturday sheds new gentle on the arrest of Alice McClure, 36, who faces a manslaughter cost within the demise of her good friend — recognized as Heather Bowen — after allegedly capturing Bowen in her brow.

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The capturing occurred in the lounge of McClure’s residence alongside Cinnamon Teal Drive close to Mims some hours after her fiance had left for work, the affidavit states. In keeping with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Workplace, deputies arrived to find McClure and the person who known as 911, directing them outdoors and later to a safe location for interviews. Deputies reported listening to McClure make spontaneous statements that she shot Bowen whereas displaying her a gun and didn’t perceive why it fired.

Deputies have been advised there was no animosity amongst anybody within the people’ good friend group, having all met out of state and routinely visiting one another for round 5 years. Bowen and the person had arrived in Mims round two weeks previous to the capturing and each deliberate to work for DoorDash that specific morning, but the person determined he needed to sleep in, he mentioned.

As the person slept, McClure advised deputies she and Bowen started a dialog that transitioned to the subject of self-defense. Following statements about how Bowen saved a knife below her pillow, McClure mentioned she personally “now not wanted to do this since she saved a gun by her mattress now,” in keeping with deputies.

After McClure retrieved a Ruger .38 Particular from her nightstand, she introduced it to Bowen, at which level she advised deputies it started to slide from her hand, she “squeezed” it, and it went off.

The noise woke the person, who reported he couldn’t inform whether or not the sounds McClure was now making throughout the house have been crying or laughing. McClure “busted” by means of a door to the place the person was sleeping, “visibly upset and verbally incoherent,” unable to name 911 when requested to take action, the person advised deputies.

Bowen was pronounced useless April 20 at Holmes Regional Medical Middle, deputies mentioned.

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Because the investigation continued, McClure mentioned throughout her third interview with regulation enforcement that she was untruthful in preliminary talks with deputies.

Whereas she mentioned at first that the hammer of the revolver had not been cocked previous to the capturing, she advised deputies now that she knew the hammer was in its firing place as she held it along with her thumb and tried to depress it by pulling the set off, which discharged a single spherical into Bowen’s brow, the affidavit describes.

McClure was launched from jail Wednesday on a $15,000 bond quantity.

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