Butler Eagle | By Jim Smith
TIONESTA TWP, Forest County — The family of a Butler County man shot and killed allegedly by his wife during an argument at their camp here disputes her account of what happened.
Ruth M. Angert, 58, of Clearfield Township told state police that 68-year-old Larry B. Angert attacked her first during a domestic quarrel late Saturday night.
She claimed he shoved her and choked her.
A short time later, Ruth Angert said she got a handgun that happened to be on a table, according to court documents.
She recounted that her husband reached for the pistol and, following a brief struggle, the gun fired, killing her husband of six years.
“Larry never would have hit her,” Shirley Angert of Donegal Township told the Butler Eagle. “He was not like that. He wasn't violent.”
And he would not have left his pistol unsecured on a table, according to Shirley Angert and her husband, Frank, Larry Angert's younger brother.
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