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Sentencing in July for 80-year-old McCook woman who killed husband

• Associated Press
• Updated May 26, 2023

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McCOOK — An 80-year-old southwestern Nebraska woman faces sentencing next month for killing her husband, though she claimed it was in response to years of abuse.

Lavetta Langdon of McCook will be sentenced July 12. She pleaded no contest to manslaughter earlier this month.

Langdon was arrested in August after police found 79-year-old Larry Langdon shot to death in his bedroom. Lavetta Langdon told investigators that her husband had struck her during a fight over money. Police say Lavetta Langdon then took a handgun from her husband's room and shot him in the chest.

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Lavetta Langdon told police she had been the victim of domestic violence for 30 years.

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