MINNEAPOLIS – A Brooklyn Center man accused of shooting and killing his ex-wife who had remarried four days earlier was charged Tuesday in Hennepin County.
Robert McCloud, 64, is charged with intentional second-degree murder in last week’s death of 48-year-old Lauri Deatherage inside her Robbinsdale home. McCloud is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon.
Civil court records show that Lauri Deatherage finalized a divorce with McCloud about three years ago. She married Billy Deatherage last week and the couple was in the process of moving to Arkansas.
McCloud told police that he was standing over his ex-wife while she was lying on a bed and when she reached for the phone, he shot her because he thought she was going to call 911.
Billy Deatherage said he met his wife 30 years ago while stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. They reconnected as friends about four years ago and he proposed this spring.
