Baxter County Woman Charged With First Degree Murder For Thanksgiving Shooting:



Rhonda Jean Clark (mug shot BCSO)

 A woman from Mountain Home, Arkansas has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting her boyfriend to death on Thanksgiving.

Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery says that a coworker of Rhonda Jean Clark called 9-1-1 after Clark came to work yesterday (11-25-10) and stated that 43-year-old Antonio Sanchez III had committed suicide around midnight.
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Baxter County Deputies and first responders from the Mountain Home Fire Department responded to the couples residence at 890 Old Tracy Ferry Road and forced entry. Once inside, deputies found Sanchez in the living room area of the home and it appeared he had been dead for several hours.

Investigators recovered a rifle, which is believed to be the murder weapon, from inside the home.
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Clark is being held Friday in the Baxter County Jail at Mountain Home on $1 million bond.