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Atlanta lawyer, Claud McIver, shot and killed his prominent business executive wife, – ‘accidentally’ from the backseat of an SUV, family claims

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>Atlanta lawyer Claud &lpar;Tex&rpar; McIver&comma; fired the shot that killed his wife&comma; Diane McIver from the backseat of an SUV sending a bullet through the front passenger seat and into his wife’s back&comma; while someone else was driving<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;">Family claims the shooting death of the marketing executive 63-year-old Diane&comma; Sunday&comma; was accidental<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>Cops decline to discuss the family’s statements&comma; identify driver of vehicle at the time of the shooting or comment on security cameras that may have captured the shooting<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>No one had been charged as of Friday <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-77560" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;09&sol;diane-mciver&period;jpg" alt&equals;"diane-mciver" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1200" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Marketing executive Diane McIver&comma; sitting in the front seat of her family SUV was shot in the back and died near Atlanta&comma; Sunday night&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A top Atlanta lawyer&comma; Claud McIver Tex a partner at Fisher &amp&semi; Phillips&comma; a prominent law firm representing employers in labor disputes shot&comma; to death killed his prominent Marketing executive wife accidentally&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to McIver family sources &comma;Claud &lpar;Tex&rpar; McIver took out his gun while riding with his wife&comma; Diane McIver&comma; 63&comma; because they were worried about a possible carjacking when several people walked toward their vehicle&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Family friend and spokesman Bill Crane told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the top Atlanta Attorney Claude McIver accidentally fired the shot that killed his wife when their car hit a bump in the road&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Crane went on to say that a yet to be identified person at the wheel of their SUV drove the couple from the Midtown Atlanta intersection without incident Sunday night&period; The gun went off in Tex McIver’s hands in the backseat minutes later&comma;  a bullet went through the front passenger seat and into the back of Mrs McIver&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Although the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled Mrs McIver’s death a homicide caused by the gunshot wound&comma; and cameras at the scene near Piedmont Park appeared to be in position to capture the shooting&comma; as of Friday afternoon&comma; so far no one has been charged with the shooting death of the business woman&period; Atlanta police on their part&comma;  have declined to discuss the family’s statements or comment on allegations that street security cameras may have captured the shooting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-77561" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;09&sol;diane-mciver2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"diane-mciver2" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"450" &sol;><&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Diane McIver died after her Atlanta lawyer husband Claud &lpar;Tex&rpar; McIver&comma; accidentally fired the shot that killed his wife<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Atlanta police Sgt&period; Warren Pickard in an email&comma; stated&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is crucial for us to not taint any parts of the investigation by commenting prematurely”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We still have people to interview and it’s important for those interviews not to be contaminated with statements from media reports&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to Pickard&comma;  investigators were working &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;expeditiously and will have something solid for media to report soon&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;So far the report from  Atlanta police report has not listed the occupants o the Ford Explorer other than Diane McIver&comma; neither was the nature of the exchange between the responding officer and the driver contained in the report&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;One of the questions raised and yet to be answered is why the driver took the injured woman to a hospital on Clifton Road&comma; 4 &half; miles away whereas Piedmont Hospital is less than half that distance from the shooting scene&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Diane McIver&comma;  president of Corey Airport Services&comma; an Atlanta-based marketing company and her husband&comma; a partner in his firm a partner at Fisher &amp&semi; Phillips&comma; had been travelling from their homes in rural Putnam County to another one of their homes in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Tex McIver who is is vice president of the Georgia State Election Board and a member of the advisory committee of The American Bar Association&&num;8217&semi;s Standing Committee on Gun Violence&comma; allegedly removed the gun from the 2013 Ford Expedition’s center console because recent Black Lives Matter protests in the area had them on edge&comma; Crane told the newspaper&period; His attorney&comma; Bill Crane said the gun went off while wrapped in a plastic grocery bag as the SUV hit a bump blocks away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-77558" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;09&sol;tex-mciver2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"tex-mciver2" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"1108" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Atlanta lawyer Tex McIver is partner at Fisher &amp&semi; Phillips&comma; a prominent law firm representing employers in labor disputes&comma; shot and killed his wife when a gun accidentally went off&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Tex McIver&comma; a lawyer who has represented Georgia&&num;8217&semi;s governor&comma; as well as employers in hundreds of union disputes&comma; is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;under extreme duress&comma;” Crane said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a tragedy&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They are two great professionals&comma; philanthropists&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;A portrait in honor of the late  business executive was to be seen on commuter routes within days of her death&period;  Meanwhile&comma; airport advertising firm Corey Airport Services paid tribute to their chief executive&comma; Diane McIver in a statement posted Friday on the company&&num;8217&semi;s Facebook page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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