Man Who Shot Wife Tells Police He Thought The Gun Wasn’t Loaded

Police have arrested a man who told police he shot his wife by accident. The 26-year-old man told police he had been watching television in the couple’s Bluffdale home Monday when he had the idea to clean his 25-year-old wife’s revolver, according to a probable cause statement. The man told police he was sitting on his bed with the gun when his wife came into the bedroom, standing directly in front of him. The man “said he pointed the gun at her, thinking it was unloaded, and pulled the trigger,... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>