October 26, 2007|By DAVID MACAULAY,
dmacaulay@dailypress.com 247-7838
HAMPTON ? Police said a 30-year-old Hampton man jumped out of a window to escape his girlfriend when she went on a shooting rampage after he said he didn't want to be with her anymore.
Hampton police spokeswoman Allison Good said Tonya Slaton, 36, of Virginia Beach, turned herself in just before midnight Wednesday.
She was charged with attempted maiming, shooting within an occupied dwelling and use of a firearm while in commission of a felony. She was in the Hampton City Jail Thursday afternoon.
According to an affidavit for a search warrant, Slaton and Matthew Pexton got into an argument just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Hampton, when Pexton told Slaton he didn't want to be in a relationship with her anymore.
Police said that when Pexton went to take a shower, Slaton went to her car and returned with a gun.
"Ms. Slaton came back to the home and approached Mr. Pexton and advised him that neither of them were going to leave alive," the search warrant affidavit said.
Slaton pulled the trigger but the weapon failed to fire, the affidavit said.
After a struggle, Pexton ran into his bedroom and shut the door.
Slaton fired four times through the door.
Pexton cut himself jumping out of the first floor window, but managed to escape the gunfire, police said.