A woman who fatally shot her daughter — who was holding a 4-month-old baby — on Monday night in Winter Haven told police it was a case of mistaken identity, and they could lock her up "for good," an affidavit states.
Police were called to 52-year-old Adele Bing's 18th Street house about 8:45 p.m., and arrived to find Bing's 25-year-old daughter Ruby Bing dead from an apparent gunshot wound to her chest.
The mother confessed that she had shot her daughter, the affidavit says.
The older Bing claimed that Ruby Bing was banging and kicking her door. Adele Bing said she thought it was her boyfriend, who she'd had a fight with earlier, and armed herself.
Adele Bing "stated she intended to use the firearm to kill her boyfriend, because he stated he was going to come back and kill her," the affidavit says.
She told police she didn't intend to fire the gun or shoot her daughter.
At the time of the shooting, police say the boyfriend was being interviewed by officers and treated at an area hospital for head injuries he had suffered in the violent argument with Adele Bing earlier in the day.
According to police, Ruby Bing was holding her 4-month-old baby when she was shot.
A witness described her bleeding from her nose and mouth as she collapsed after the fatal shot, her baby falling onto the ground.
The 4-month-old was not injured, police said.
After she was taken into custody, police say Adele Bing called the shooting an "accident," said she "thought it was somebody else" and told police her daughter would have lied about it if she had survived the shot.
"How could I look my grandkids in their face and say I killed their mother, y'all can lock me away for good," Adele Bing said, according to police.
She was arrested on second-degree murder and child abuse charges.
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