“I was playing with a gun that I didn’t know was loaded and I hit my wife,” Burke told a 911 operator late Thursday.
But deputies said he has been arguing with his wife before the shooting. “Burke advised that he retrieved his .40 caliber handgun from the closet shelf, opened the box and displayed the weapon in a threatening manner,” Investigator Bob Jaynes wrote in an arrest affidavit. That’s when the gun discharged. Burke faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and animal cruelty. Once Burke is transferred to Orange County he will go before a judge there to determine if he will be able to get out of jail. When he is released, Burke is under an order from Seminole County Judge Jerri L. Collins not to have any contact with his wife or to go within 1,500 feet of their home on Hilltop Place. Accounting Firm APARTMENT COMMUNITY IN KISSIMMEE Global Marketing