Police: Wife mistakes husband for intruder, kills him

John Bacon | USA TODAY

A Pennsylvania woman is accused of murdering her husband after she told police she was high on methamphetamine and mistook him for an intruder.

Trista Zickefoose, 31, called 911 just before midnight Sunday to report she shot her husband, Gregory, 40, in their Knox Dale home, The Courier-Express newspaper reported.

State police arrived to find Gregory Zickefoose dead inside the home. the Courier Express reports that Trista Zickefoose told officers the couple had been involved in a domestic dispute before the shooting.

Police said the woman heard a noise which she believed to be an intruder, grabbed a 9mm pistol she kept under her pillow and fired a warning shot, the Associated Press reported.

Police said her husband tried to take the gun from her, but she shot him in the chest.

"I was awake last night and I heard a sound, I didn't know if it were a gunshot or what," neighbor Ray Chappel told WJAC-TV. "I wasn't expecting it. They seem to be nice people. She used to walk down the street all the time."