Trigger Warning: This article discusses an officer-involved shooting.

Police bodycam shows cops’ response to a 911 call from a woman reporting that her husband, Deputy Sheriff Winfred Adams, had shot her friend at the 6000 block of Old Jefferson Road, Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. It turned out it was her lover, and she had lied to her husband to go see him.

Adams tracked his wife’s location and discovered her with a man cuddling on the couch. When the police reached the location, they asked Adams to drop his weapon and come out. At first, he refused to drop the weapon and come out of the house. He told the officers, “I never wanted to be this guy.”

He was heartbroken as well as angry. This was not the first time his wife had cheated on him. Later, he explained to the officers that after a previous incident, the two had a rule not to hang out with men and not to drink.

The police took Adams into custody once he stopped resisting. The officer told him, “I am also happy you did not shoot. No matter what happened, it ain’t worth it. That’s my opinion. Okay. You have plenty of life left to live.”

His wife was also taken into prison custody for interrogation. The officers took both of their statements. Adams explained that his wife had told him she had gone out to get something to eat with some people. He checked her location to see where she was and told her to bring something to eat from there.

He told the officer, “She’s never been straight with me, and I need to know for sure.” And so I locked my truck, and um I walked up, and there were some windows that were kind of open, and all I was looking for was whether there was a table?”

 

Soon, he discovered that they were lying on the couch with their arms wrapped around each other. When he unlocked the door, she told him they were just friends, but it was too late. Adams shot the man with his personal gun.

He added, “For whatever reason, I don’t know why I didn’t think I was dumb, as it sounds. Everything went in slow-mo at that moment, and it felt like I had no control over any of it. Like I was being forced to watch it, but I didn’t.”

He immediately regretted his decision, but it was too late. He admitted to shooting 2-3 times, which proved to be fatal. His wife was in another interrogation room. She told the officers he was her friend, as she did not have female friends. She claimed he understood her well, so she went to meet him.

Moreover, she made up a story about lying down on the couch. She tried to blame her friend, “Well, then Lloyd’s like, ‘Do you want to just lay on the couch?’ No idea. I’m like, I guess Lloyd’s maybe in pain or something. I’m like, okay, we’ll lie here for like a second.”

The bodycam video and investigation footage have more than 1.6 million views on YouTube. The viewers sympathized with the husband, “Dude threw his life away over THAT woman.” Another one added, “That adulterous wife was not worth losing your life for.” None of the viewers was convinced by the wife’s story: “Her trying to make up a story about why they were hugging was so cringy.” A user wrote, “That woman is a classic narcissist.” 

Despite giving inconsistent statements to investigators that ultimately led to a fatal shooting, she faced no charges. While her lover was killed and her husband, Adams, received a life sentence with parole eligibility after 30 years, she remained legally unaffected.

Disclaimer: Inquisitr individually could not independently confirm the facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available within the public video record.