Former preschool teacher’s assistant kills high school sweetheart, claims it was an accident: Police

Homicide
A Georgia preschool teacher’s assistant is behind bars after police say she shot and killed her high school sweetheart on Wednesday, then claimed the gun unintentionally discharged. WSB-TV reports that the incident occurred on Wednesday night inside the Griffin home of 24-year-old Mary Katherine Higdon and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Steven Freeman, off of Sunnybrook Drive. Higdon is …