Advertisement Man who killed wife he mistook for burglar describes loss, her last words Billy Williams accidentally killed wife, Gina, on Friday Share Shares Copy Link Copy

A North Carolina man who accidentally shot and killed his wife when he mistook her for a burglar has shared her last words and his grief in a Facebook post. Billy Williams, 49, shot his wife Friday when she returned home from work early and he assumed she was a burglar, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office investigators said. Deputies found Gina Williams, 48, early Friday morning lying on the front porch of the couple’s home with a fatal gunshot wound to her neck. Billy Williams administered first aid to try to save his wife, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Gina Williams had returned home from an overnight work shift hours earlier than expected. Deputies said the couple’s daughter heard a noise at the front door and alerted her father. Thinking someone was trying to break in, Billy Williams got a gun from a safe, opened the front door and fired one shot, authorities said. The front porch light was not on, investigators said. Billy Williams posted on Facebook: “First I want to say none of you will understand the love I have for Gina. As in any marriage we have our ups and downs but we love each other unconditionally. “I am dying inside and none of this seems real. Gina is the rock of our family and the most compassionate, loving person I have ever known. She loves her family so much and Darcie and Alexis are the apples of her eye. “This is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life. The last words Gina said to me as I held her was, ‘I love you.' Those words of have rang over and over again in my head, and every time I close my eyes I see her and hear her. “I ask that you keep all of us in your prayers. Not just me and the girls, but Gina’s family. Right now the girls are with them … Today I hope to have the girls back where we can be together and grieve together. “I want to thank you for your thoughts and prayers. This is the only post I will be making, and only did this to thank you all that have supported us in our time of grief. Gina is the very foundation of this family and all of us will miss her tremendously. My heart feels like it has been ripped from my chest … We have a lot of healing to do and my heart is broken. For 17 years, she was my absolute everything.” WMBF, WRAL, Williams Family via CNN Download the WYFF News 4 app