It wasn’t the word “guilty” – spoken Monday by the man who fatally shot her husband – that drove Britteni Moats to her knees.
It was, instead, the words she was forced to say eight months ago to her three children upon learning Brian Keith Stalans had fatally shot their father, Maryville Police Department Officer Kenny Moats.
“It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life is look into their eyes and tell them their daddy wouldn’t be coming home again,” the slain officer’s widow said in a statement she asked to be read aloud Monday in Blount County Circuit Court because she remains too shattered to speak publicly.
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