Woman wants charges dropped against man who tried to shoot her

Even though her brother-in-law, Michael Lee Rickett, 54, pointed a loaded .22 caliber pistol at her head on New Year’s Eve and pulled the trigger, Louella Reeves doesn’t want to see him sent to prison or even prosecuted in court.

Instead, she wants the charges to be dismissed and for him to get help.

"I want him to get help. I believe in my soul he will get help. I believe it with all my heart," she told Whitley District Judge Cathy Prewitt right before Rickett’s preliminary hearing Monday morning on charges of attempted murder, fourth-degree assault domestic violence and resisting arrest.

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