Killed Man to Protect Daughter, Mother Says
A Lancaster mother on trial for murder Friday defended her claim that she was protecting her teen-age daughter when she shot to death a construction worker she blamed for her daughter’s drug use.
In a second day of emotional testimony in Lancaster Superior Court, Belita Fox said that although she knew that on the night of the shooting her daughter was not at the victim’s house, where witnesses have testified the girl used drugs on several occasions, she still believed that the girl was in danger.
Fox, 41, has admitted shooting Kevin Furman, 23, four times last Aug. 30.
“You don’t know what I went through with that child,” Fox said tearfully. “I went there to protect my daughter, and if necessary, myself.”
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