Heartless killer shot his wife then demanded her mum bring him PlayStation
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A man shot his wife dead before asking her mum to bring him his PlayStation. Sydney Palmer was killed by husband Michael Edgington in Wellington, Kansas, on July 3 last year. Palmer allegedly threw a 4.04-ounce concrete figurine at his head during an argument. He responded by gunning her down with a 9mm pistol. On Monday, Edgington was sentenced to 61 months in prison over the mother-of-three's death. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
Sydney's mother Emma Cooley tore into her disgraced son-in-law at the sentencing, revealing how he tormented the family after her death. Speaking about their first conversation after the shooting, Cooley told Edgington: "The first thing you asked me is for the PlayStation.".
Local website Sumner NewsCow reports she then placed a games console on a bench close to where he was sitting and added: "Well, here’s your PlayStation." Cooley told Sydney's killer "she loved you" and raged at how he decided to get remarried in the house where the shooting took place.
"This is the place where you killed your ex-wife and my daughter,” Cooley told him. "And you have a wedding there as if she hadn’t existed." She also accused Edgington of littering and throwing cigarettes out at her grave. Edgington told the court he did "understand" he had done "something wrong", adding: "But I don’t feel I am a threat to society." Sumner County District Court Judge William Mott gave him the maximum sentence possible along with 36 months of probation.
In police interviews, Edgington claimed Sydney had "manic episodes" and had been taken off medication prior to the incident. He said: "Sydney had manic episodes. A doctor recently had taken her off her medication and she came angry at him for not taking out the trash. She then began breaking things inside the residence and [I] told her to stop. She then took a concrete figurine and threatened to throw it at me. I told her to stop. She threw it at me and hit me in the head.".
