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Woman Kills Nephew While Aiming for Estranged Husband

7 December 2000

Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — A woman gunning for her estranged husband shot and killed her 5-year-old nephew instead as he sat in a car, police said. Amy Bankston, 24, pleaded innocent Wednesday to capital murder and was ordered held on $250,000 bail. Police Lt. Eric Higgins said Bankston approached her estranged husband's car at a traffic light Monday and fired into it, thinking he was in the vehicle. Instead, Bankston's sister-in-law and her family were. Bankston's... (GunPolicy.org)

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