Ashley Christina Benefield, a former campaign office manager for President Donald Trump, has been arrested for killing her husband.
Ashley (28) turned herself in on November 4th in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, after cops there found probable cause for her arrest in Manatee County.
The 28-year-old is accused of fatally shooting and killing her husband Doug Benefield (59) on September 27th.
Police were called out to a Central Park home where Ashley allegedly said she shot Doug during a domestic dispute.
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Detectives said they found no evidence that Ashley acted in self-defense against her Navy veteran husband, who later died from his injuries in a local hospital.
“In the course of the investigation detectives determined Ashley shot Doug, during what she had described was as a domestic argument. However detectives found no evidence that she was acting in self-defense when she fired multiple shots at her husband. She claimed he was attacking her, but detectives found no signs that she had been physically abused,” Police said in a press release.
Ashley and her late husband were separated, she had been staying at her mother’s home in the neighborhood, while her husband lived elsewhere, according to police.
The two were feuding over custody of their daughter when the 59-year-old navy veteran was fatally shot. Manatee County court records indicated that their domestic issues went back years.
Police said in each of these cases it didn’t look as though Ashley was being abused by her late husband as she had always claimed.
Ashley was a former Trump Campaign Office Manager in Sarasota and a former Director of Florida Women for Trump in 2016.
Ashley was also swimsuit model, who was on Trump payroll’s as a Florida office staffer getting $3,000 a month.
The Sun newspaper confirmed that Ashley was a registered Republican in Lakewod Ranch, Florida, from the age of 21 – according to voter records.
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