Saginaw man who shot himself and survived pleads to killing wife

SAGINAW, MI — Saginaw police in February made a ghastly discovery inside a house on the city’s East Side: a woman shot dead on her kitchen floor as her husband lay nearby with a gunshot wound to his face. Though the husband survived, investigators determined it was he who fired the fatal bullets into his wife before turning his rifle on himself.

The day his trial was to begin on murder charges, the accused killer decided to accept a plea offer rather than take his chances with a jury.