Beauty Queen Found Not Guilty in Killing

A beauty queen who said she shot and killed her boyfriend in self-defense was acquitted of murder in Savannah.

Sharron Nicole Redmond admitted shooting her boyfriend outside the home of another woman he was dating but said she thought he was reaching for a gun. He did not have a weapon.

Redmond, 23, had faced an automatic life sentence if convicted of Kevin Shorter’s 2003 slaying. Four months earlier she had been crowned Miss Savannah.