Mom eviscerates son-in-law who asked her for his PlayStation just after killing her daughter
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Michael Edgington was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his 25-year-old wife, Sydney Palmer, at their Kansas home on July 3, 2024. The mother of a slain Kansas woman who was fatally shot during a domestic dispute ripped into her son-in-law at his sentencing for asking for his PlayStation just after her death.
![[Michael Edgington was sentenced to 61 months in prison for the death of his 25-year-old wife Sydney Palmer, who he fatally shot on July 3, 2023]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/08/15/Screenshot-2025-01-08-at-10.49.38%E2%80%AFAM.jpg)
Michael Edgington was sentenced for voluntary manslaughter after taking a plea deal in the death of his 25-year-old wife Sydney Palmer, who was killed on July 3, 2023, at their home in Wellington. Before he was sentenced on Monday, Palmer’s mother, Emma Cooley, reminded Edgington of what he said to her just after he gunned down her daughter.
![[Edgington claimed in police interviews that he was acting in self-defense when he shot his wife, Sydney Palmer]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/08/15/Screenshot-2025-01-08-at-9.46.03%E2%80%AFAM.jpg)
Edgington and Palmer were having a fight on the afternoon of July 3 when she allegedly threw a 4.04-ounce concrete figurine at his head, according to a police report in which an officer noted a bump on Edgington’s forehead. Edgington then shot Palmer with a 9 mm pistol, police said. The mother-of-three was rushed to the hospital where she later died.
“She loved you,” Cooley told him during the emotional hearing. “Even in her last breath to law enforcement, she didn’t want to admit you killed her. She was always trying to protect you.”. Cooley also lambasted her son-in-law for getting remarried in the house he shared with her daughter after he killed her.
“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.”. Edgington has repeatedly claimed in previous police interviews that he was acting in self-defense when he shot Palmer and that his wife had suffered manic episodes.
