Man shoots dead fiancee thinking she is intruder

A MAN who thought there was an intruder in his house shot and killed his fiancee the day before they were due to be married, police in Florida said.

“Right now everything points to a tragic accident,” police chief Kevin Brunelle said.

John Tabutt, 62, told investigators he got his gun when he thought he heard an intruder, then fired at a figure in the hallway, according to Brunelle. It was Tabutt’s live-in fiancee, Nancy Dinsmore, 62, who family members say he was going to marry on Saturday.