Father shoots dead Wife, gives 4 of his Children Gun Injuries

 A man has allegedly shot dead his wife, and gave four out of his eight children severe gunshot injures during a horrific domestic squabble. The hospitalized children, aged 5, 8, 11, and 12, suffered wounds in their hands, hips, chest and thighs. The four children, who were not shot are 13, nine, six and 8-months-old.

The man, Sedrick Norris has been arrested after his girlfriend, Coral Anita Wilson was found dead in their living room in Birmingham.

A woman who lived next door and was close friends with Wilson said Norris came to his girlfriend's home earlier that night and asked to see his children. When Wilson refused and would not let him inside the home, Norris allegedly kicked the front door's screen and left, according to WFIE. 

Two hours later Wilson's neighbor said she heard gunshots.  When the woman went outside to check on the noise, four of Wilson's children were running toward her for help. Three of them had been shot, and one had been shot or grazed by a bullet.

'Tete, I've been shot,' she recalled one of them saying. 'My daddy shot me.' 

Police arrived at the scene around 10.15pm and found some of the children in the yard. Wilson's boyfriend had fled on foot.  Norris was arrested six hours later after officers found him asleep in a car, covered in a pile of clothes in the driver seat.

Authorities said Norris was compliant while being taken into custody and seemed relieved he had been caught, according to The Huntsville Times. 

A temporary restraining order was granted after Wilson filed a protection from abuse request against Norris in March, saying he had pushed her over a table on Valentine's day and caused her to knock their nine-year-old daughter over.  Wilson asked that her boyfriend be kept away from both her and their children at home and school.

The protective order was extended on May 4, according to ABC 33/40.  

Police said there was a long history of domestic violence at Wilson's residence, and the couple have been in court several times since 2003.