Man tells police he killed wife with cancer

LONDON, Kentucky – A U.S. man who said he killed his cancer-stricken wife at her request called police to confess minutes after the shooting and was charged with murder.

Ernest Chris Chumbley told a police dispatcher in Kentucky he shot his wife twice in the face early Wednesday. Chumbley later told media outlets from jail that she wanted her pain to end.

Chumbley cried throughout the 16-minute call to police and said his wife had an appointment with her cancer doctor that morning. At one point, he asked the dispatcher if he could go see his wife’s body in the bedroom, but he was told not to move.

The 48-year-old Chumbley’s defense attorney, Kelly Ridings, sad it was too early in the case to comment.