Ex-Sheriff Lenden Woodruff Shot - Wife Charged
A second "witness" to Candyce Woodruff's admission to having shot her husband has come forward. Randel Raison, a court reporter in Houston, TX for whom Candyce Woodruff had been working for a few weeks claims he was speaking to Candyce when she shot her husband.
Delaware County District Attorney Eddie Wyant has confirmed that his office received a three-page written statement that appears to be identical to the one which Randel Raison sent to news media outlets.
Raison in his public statement claims:
When she answered the phone, she sounded intoxicated. She proceeded to tell me that "Lenden has been abusing me for years, and everyone knows it", while she was whimpering and intermittently crying. Periodically, during our approximate 10-minute phone call, she would shout to Lenden "get away from me".
Toward the very end of our conversation, I heard a loud ‘bang'.
Raison says that when he asked what had just happened that Candyce Woodruff said twice:
I just shot him.
Raison then asked, "Where did you shoot him?
To which Raison says Candyce Woodruff replied, In the heart.
Raison claims that Candyce Woodruff said that she'd used a .22-caliber pistol, before indicating she had to cut the conversation short and call 911 because "he's bleeding all over the place".
Raison says that later he called back and Candyce answered the phone, she said, I couldn't take the abuse anymore, it has to stop. Raison indicates that when he asked if Lenden was still alive, Candyce said, I don't know, I guess I shot him in the stomach instead of the heart, but the paramedics will be here soon enough.
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