Lawyer who Killed Wife & Blamed BLM Gets Charged with Manslaughter

RadioOnFire.com - Claud "Tex" McIver, a prominent Atlanta attorney, was charged with involuntary manslaughter (a felony) and reckless conduct (a misdemeanor) after killing his wife in what he claimed was an accidental shooting inspired by his fear of Black Lives Matter protesters.

Back in September around 12:30 a.m., a driver took Tex and his wife Diane to their house in the city's Buckhead neighborhood.  Diane rode in the passenger seat while Tex rode in the backseat of the SUV.  McIver claims he was worried about "unrest" in the city from Black Lives Matter protests happening in Lenox Square and downtown over the weekend.  His paranoia reportedly got worse when the driver took a wrong turn and ended up in an unfamiliar downtown area after trying to take a quicker route, said McIver's spokesperson Bill Crane.  While lost and surrounded by people who he claimed looked threatening, and supposedly fearful of getting carjacked, McIver asked his wife for his gun which was kept wrapped in a grocery bag in the middle console between the front car seats.   McIver reportedly put the gun on his lap and fell asleep, but when the SUV hit a bump in the road, the gun was set off fatally injuring Diane in the back.

On Wednesday, McIver's charges were handed down, and he turned himself into police, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Tex's brother, John "Spike" McIver, told the AJC that his sibling was "very depressed" about the situation, especially given the timing.

"He’s upset that this is occurring on Christmas week," McIver said. "They [the police] could’ve waited, but they work in strange ways.”

Tex McIver's lawyer, Steve Maples, said his client was "very, very embarrassed and very, very humiliated" by the charges.  Maples also changed the account of the shooting, differing from McIver's initial comments.  Maples now claimed there was no bump in the road (a mistake he blames on McIver's spokesman Crane) and that the gun just went off after McIver was suddenly woken up.  The woman who was driving, however, says the SUV wasn't moving when the shooting occurred.

Source: complex.com