On the evening of May 10, 2026, 69-year-old Timothy Clutts was found dead in his Russellville, Alabama, home on Duncan Creek Road. Deputies from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office arrived after a 911 call around 7:30 p.m. and discovered Clutts seated in a living room chair with a single gunshot wound to his chest. A handgun was later recovered from the top of a cooler inside the home.

Police say the call came from Clutts’s wife, 65-year-old Sherri Mitchell-Clutts, who told the dispatcher she had shot her husband and later admitted the shooting to investigators. Her account reportedly shifted during questioning; she initially said she felt threatened by her husband’s actions earlier that day but later told authorities she had grown annoyed by his frequent attempts to check on her after recent open-heart surgery, went to retrieve a handgun, and found him in the living room and shot him. Investigators reported no domestic-related calls at the residence in the previous six years. Sherri Mitchell-Clutts was arrested and charged with murder and is being held without bond.

Did anyone in Russellville know the Clutts family or have information about their household dynamic in the weeks before May 10?