MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Authorities say a 57-year-old Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to killing his wife inside their Crystal home last year.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says 57-year-old Dennis Sandland shot and killed 53-year-old Sandra Sandland in July. He pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder.
Freeman says Sandland is facing more than 25 years in prison.
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The criminal complaint says Sandland called two of his children on July 12 to tell them he had killed their mother. Police found Sandra Sandland dead on a bed with a gunshot wound to her head.
Police say Sandland acknowledged numerous times that he was angry with his wife and shot her. Family members told police the couple had been fighting a lot in the weeks before the murder.
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