Wife Yells "My Husband Just Shot Me" During 911 Call

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — A woman told a 911 operator she had a hole in her stomach after she was shot by her husband late Thursday night (hear call). The shooting happened inside the couple's $2.5 million riverfront home in Edgewater.

Theodre Malewski, 64, has not been charged with attempted murder, but he is in jail facing assault and firearms charges. He fired his gun inside the home three times, which he claimed was just an accident.

Investigators said Theodore Malewski had tried to end an argument with a 9-mm handgun. The victim, 71-year-old Patricia Malewski, told the 911 dispatcher that she had been shot by her husband. In the background, the dispatcher could hear her husband yelling that the shooting was accidental.

911 CALL: Woman Shot In Stomach

His wife disagreed.

"Was it on accident or on purpose?" the operator asked.

"It was on purpose!" she answered.

"Okay, he said it was an accident," the operator said.

"Huh?" she asked.

"He says it was an accident," the operator said.

"Well, I don't care. He's not shot, I am. You should see, I've got a bullet hole in my stomach," she said.

The sheriff's office said the incident at the multi-million dollar home started after a dinner out and a night of drinking.

"He's drunk as a skunk," Patricia Malewski said to the operator.

"He's drunk?" the operator asked.

"Yeah," she replied.

But Theodore Malewski tried to end the argument, investigators said, by getting his gun to scare his 71-year-old wife and said it went off three times. He was so drunk that the 911 operator had to argue with him over leaving the house to talk to deputies.

"Walk outside the door with your hands up," the operator said.

"But there's nobody here," Theodore said.

"Sir, you need to walk outside with your hands up," the operator said.

"That's not going to happen. There's nobody here," he said.

Malewski has a history of domestic violence and DUI arrests, but the sheriffs office said, in this case, he was cooperating and concerned about his wife's condition.

"You don't hear on the tape anything bad or negative or continuing to yell at her. He is concerned about her welfare," said Brandon Haught of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

The victim was out of surgery Friday and recovering in the intensive care unit at the hospital. Investigators said she is responsive and talking. Patricia's sister was in the house when the incident happened, but the woman told investigators she didn't see the shooting.

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