A man has been charged with killing his girlfriend Sunday night.

Greene County Sheriff Lemmie Smith says around 10:00 p.m. they were sent to a home on Bel Air Drive in Walstonburg for a shooting.

Smith says before getting to the home, deputies were stopped by James Williams who told them he had shot his girlfriend and was turning himself in.

Williams was detained and deputies then found that 44-year-old Jacqueline Winstead of Elm City had been shot at the home.

The 63-year-old Williams was charged with murder and is being held without bond pending a first court appearance in Snow Hill.