Texarkana, Texas

From the Texarkana Gazette of November 16, 2006

No charges filed in Condit shooting

Family spokesman says self-defense; police await autopsy for final finding

Preliminary findings indicate Tuesday’s shooting death of Stacey Condit, a Texarkana attorney’s ex-wife, was self-defense, and no charges have been filed.

“We’re speculating it’s self-defense, but they are still taking statements. We want to wait until the autopsy results are back,” Wake Village Police Chief Tony Estes said late Wednesday.

The body has been sent to Dallas for an autopsy.

Condit, 39, was the ex-wife of attorney Bruce Condit. The shooting happened about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday at Bruce Condit’s Wake Village home. Bruce Condit, his two grown children and two of their friends were at the house at the time of the incident.

They were questioned by police and released. No charges have been filed, said Wake Village Police Detective Keith Schutte.

Schutte said police know who shot Stacey Condit but are not releasing the person’s name pending the completion of the investigation.

Schutte said Stacey Condit went to the home with a rifle, apparently intending to hurt her ex-husband, and entered the house. She was shot with a shotgun that belonged to someone in the house, he said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Michael Peek, Bruce Condit’s close friend and law partner, said he had spoken to Condit, who told him what happened at the residence Tuesday.

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