Tammy Renee Robinson Wooten, 39, of Bessemer City, North Carolina, died on June 16, 2008, from a gunshot wound through her right eye. She was born April 30, 1969, in Anderson, South Carolina, and was the daughter of Judy Cothran Robinson and the late William Tony Robinson. The case is described as a domestic violence death.

On the day of her death Tammy and her husband, Forest William Wooten, had recently moved into a new house in Bessemer City. Forest’s cousin, Bobby Hamrick, was staying with them and was inflating an air mattress when Forest ran into the room and told him to call 911 for Tammy. Forest’s grandmother, Eula Robinson, who lived in a trailer behind the house, later told an officer that Forest had come to her trailer saying I killed her, she’s dead, and that he had previously pointed a gun at Tammy and slapped her a few days earlier.

Forest was taken to Gaston Memorial Hospital with breathing difficulties and told his treating physician he had shot his wife. He later gave multiple, differing accounts to police but continued to say he shot Tammy. Does anyone have information about Tammy’s life in Bessemer City or what led up to that night?