Audrey Marie Mayo, 24, and Matthew Tyler Webb, 23, have known each other for about two months. When they first met, she said, he seemed nice, friendly, responsible. Plus, he liked the Grateful Dead.
But Mayo said the two didn't officially become a couple until Nov. 21, after Mayo accidentally shot her.
"Cupid doesn't use a bow and arrow anymore," said 30-year-old Jesse Greer, Mayo's brother-in-law. "He uses an SKS" rifle.
She doesn't remember much else from that night. She recalls lying on the ground and wondering whether Webb thought she was dead. She remembers medics talking to each other in some complicated jargon.
She woke up days later in a bed at Erlanger hospital. Webb was in the room with her, clutching a note he wrote so that, when he got a chance to talk to the woman he accidentally shot, he would know what to say.
After Webb called 911 on Nov. 21, LaFayette police arrested him on charges of firing a gun within 150 feet of a road. Capt. Stacey Meeks said Webb admitted to taking several illegal drugs that day, and Meeks expects Webb will be charged with other crimes.
Because the incident involved hunting violations, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is handling the investigation. The day after the shooting, DNR Capt. Johnny Johnson said Webb could be charged with misuse of a firearm, a hunting license violation and failing to wear orange.
"It's like a modern version of how a caveman used to bash a woman over the head with a club," Greer said. "These days, they just shoot her in the leg."
From Times Free Press
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