Groom accidentally kills bride day before wedding

On the eve of his wedding, a Florida man heard a burglar in his home, grabbed a gun and opened fire. Tragically, the supposed intruder turned out to be his live-in fiancée - who died in front of him.

It happened at about 2:30 a.m. on Friday while John Tabutt, 62, was in bed at his Winter Springs home. He heard a suspicious noise and saw a figure in the dark hallway.



Thinking his girlfriend, Nancy Dinsmore, was still in bed, he pulled the trigger on his .38-caliber revolver - then collapsed in sobs when he realized she was the one prowling the house.

"I thought I had an intruder in the house," a moaning Tabutt told a 911 operator. "Honest to God, she looks dead," he said between sobs.



At one point, he thought he saw his fiancée take a breath. "Hang in there, honey. Hang in there," he was heard telling her. We were supposed to get married. Get married this Saturday," Tabutt told the dispatcher.

Dinsmore was pronounced dead minutes after paramedics arrived. "Right now, everything points to a tragic accident," Police Chief Kevin Brunell said, adding that investigators were awaiting forensic results.