ATLANTA — Prosecutors say a prominent Atlanta attorney intentionally killed his business executive wife and tried to exert unlawful pressure on witnesses as authorities investigated the September shooting death. A grand jury indicted Claud “Tex” McIver on charges including malice murder and influencing witnesses in the death of Diane McIver, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said in an emailed statement Thursday. The McIvers were nervous about unrest surrounding Black Lives Matter Protests and feared a carjacking, Crane told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Tex McIver, who was nodding off when they hit the bump, didn’t remember firing the gun, Crane told the newspaper. Jeff Dickerson, a spokesman for McIver told the Journal-Constitution in January that McIver never made the comment about Black Lives Matter, but Crane told the newspaper he did.

Source: National Post April 28, 2017 15:33 UTC