MEMPHIS, Tenn. - "I did what I had to do."
FOX13 has learned why a woman shot and killed a man in the Walker Holmes neighborhood of Memphis Thursday.
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A woman has been charged with first-degree murder.
According to the affidavit, she caught her daughter with a man in her home and shot him to death after finding him hiding under a bed.
The woman's daughter, who invited the man into the house, said that he hid under the bed; the affidavit also said the daughter told police that her mother said that if she ever caught a male in the house she would kill them.
Court documents show that, when the man was caught under the bed, he went out to the front porch where the woman shot him in the back of the head.
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