The fate of a Fort Thomas woman on trial for the shooting death of her husband is now in hands of jurors.
The jury in the murder trial of Cheryl McCafferty heard closing arguments and then was dismissed by Campbell Circuit Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward to the jury room to deliberate shortly before 3 p.m. Monday.
McCafferty is accused of killing her husband as he lay in the couple's bed at their home on Madonna Place. Robert McCafferty, 44, was shot once in the head.
During the trial Cheryl McCafferty claimed she acted in self defense after a night of terror in which her husband pistol whipped her and threatened her and the lives of their two children. Prosecutors, however, said she was $50,000 in debt on credit cards and had forged her husband's checks before the deadly shooting. They argued there was no sign of struggle in the bed where the fatal shooting took place but instead that McCafferty shot her husband while he slept.
