DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — He was captured on surveillance video running over his estranged wife who died from her injuries.
But now he is speaking out, saying it was a tragic accident. And his wife was at fault.
Channel 2’s Tom Jones spoke to the estranged husband of 58-year-old Janice Frazier at his attorney’s office.
His attorney, Jackie Patterson, also known as The Fly Lawyer, asked us not to reveal his identity since he hasn’t been charged. And Patterson didn’t allow us to ask him questions about what happened that night.
The estranged husband says he is torn up over what happened.
“I’m not doing good. Because we were still in love. We were still married,” he said.
He called what happened that early morning June 21 a tragic accident.
“I miss my wife and I love her so much,” he said.
Frazier’s family doesn’t believe it was an accident and want police to charge the husband.
Patterson wanted to dispute some of Frazier’s family’s claims about what happened that night. And he warns people the surveillance video of the incident doesn’t tell the whole story.
“The true fact that it doesn’t get. The facts it does not capture is what happened before the traffic accident,” the attorney said.
Frazier’s family said she climbed on the husband’s truck because he was intoxicated and she didn’t want him to drive.
Patterson said his client doesn’t drink, and it was Frazier who was intoxicated.
“She was acting on her own because she was angry and intoxicated,” he said.
The family says the video shows the husband dragging Frazier up the long driveway and back inside the house, where they say he then changed her clothes.
Patterson says Frazier was still alive.
“She talked to him and said, ‘Take me in the house,’” he said.
He says police told the husband to put some clothes on her since she only had on a robe.
Frazier’s family also says he left her note at the home professing his love. But Patterson said he wrote that note after getting a disturbing text from Frazier.
“She texted him and it was such an alarming text, in terms of her safety, he decided he had to go over because she blocked him,” he said.
The husband got emotional during this interview. Jones asked him why.
“It’s a bad situation. I mean, I loved her. I’m still in love with her,” he replied.
DeKalb County Police say they are still investigating.
The husband told Jones police interviewed him for two hours, he told them everything, and they let him go home.
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