Robert and Melissa Marshall and their son and Melissa’s daughter from a previous marriage.ATHENS, Tenn. – Several hours after Theresa Daniel had sat with her son as he fiddled with his pistol and threatened to pull the trigger, an officer visited her.
Police assured Daniel on Saturday that her 34-year-old son, Robert Marshall, was safe in jail and would receive a psychological evaluation. And an Athens police incident report shows that Officer Corey Fritts wrote Marshall was “suicidal and homicidal” and needed to be evaluated.
“We dodged a bullet this time,” Daniel thought to herself at the time.
But six hours later, Marshall was dead on his bedroom floor.
Authorities said Marshall was shot in the chest by his wife, Melissa, after he forced his way into the couple’s home on Saturday, 10 minutes after he had been released from jail.