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GRAFTON, W.Va. A Barbour County woman has entered into a plea deal in the shooting death of her husband after the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals overturned her 2020 murder conviction.
In 2019, Carli Reed, then 23, was charged with first-degree murder after court documents said she admitted to shooting her husband, Marcus Fagons, as he lay in bed in their Moatsville home.
During the investigation, Reed told investigators from the West Virginia State Police that she believed Fagons was talking to other girls, and a verbal altercation erupted. After the argument, Reed told investigators she shot Fagons while he was sleeping with a pistol that was on the nightstand.
In 2020, Reed was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison. That conviction was overturned because the judge failed to instruct the jury that the shooting could have been an accident.