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Former soldier testifies in TN murder trial

Montogomery Co. Sheriff's Department

Former Fort Campbell soldier Jonathan Downing says he was provoked into shooting his wife to death in September of 2009.  The Leaf-Chronicle reports Downing told a Clarksville jury Wednesday he was in the garage minding his own business, when Sena Downing struck him. He says he blacked out and then picked up his pistol when he, in his words, "registered the threat." He heard a pop but didn't realize he had killed his wife until later.  Medical examiner Thomas Deering testified Sena Downing had multiple bruises on her body. He says her gunshot wounds were consistent with being in a sitting position when she was shot.  Deering also testified that she had alcohol and marijuana in her system.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.