On her Facebook page, Shannon Wiser listed a single word explaining her religious views – “karma.”
Her friends and family hope karma – the belief that a person’s actions determine what happens to them – decides the fate of her husband, John “Budweiser” Wiser, the man charged Tuesday in her death. Police say he choked his wife and threw her head against the wall of their Hixson home on two occasions last week, leading to her death on Sunday.
“What a big man he is, beating up and killing somebody with two children,” Shannon’s sister, Karen Guthrie, said Monday afternoon.
Chattanooga police said Wiser eluded them after they issued an arrest warrant following the first domestic incident, which occurred Sept. 4.
He returned three days later and, according to police records, attacked his wife, leaving her sprawled unconscious in the front yard with a bloody face.