Oxford Shooting Victim Wishes Scott Gellatly Would Have Received the Death Penalty

Scott Gellatly, 47, of Oxford could spend the rest of his life behind bars after he pleaded guilty to murdering his estranged wife, Lori Gellatly, 32, at her parent’s house at 43 Sioux Dr., and shooting her mother, Merry Jackson, who has had several surgeries following the incident, Fox CT reports.

The shootings occurred on May 7, 2014. Gellatly could receive a 45-year prison sentence when he is sentenced on Nov. 17 but if the case had gone to trial he could have been looking at a sentence of more than 80 years.

Gellatly pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder.

After the guilty plea, Jackson, 64, said “I would have loved to hear “life” or, to tell you the truth, I would like the death penalty but it’s not possible,” Jackson, said according to the Hartford Courant’s Alaine Griffin. “I feel that this is a life sentence for him. He’s not gonna have a good life and he doesn’t deserve one. I mean, he took an angel that day and he tried to kill me.”

Prior to the shootings, Lori Gellatly filed for a temporary restraining order from her husband, and police at the time said he forced his way into the house, shot his wife and her mother, and fled, but was apprehended after a brief manhunt, Fox Ct reports.

Read the full Hartford Courant story here.

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