A Georgia woman was shot and killed outside a courthouse by her ex-husband just two days after their divorce was finalized.
Krystal Evans, 44, was sitting in her vehicle Friday following an appearance at the Spalding County Courthouse when police said her ex-husband Tom Mallory shot her before shooting himself.
Evans had just completed her divorce from Mallory finalized on Wednesday after initially filing in late 2022. According to court documents, Evans was also granted a permanent restraining order against Mallory in the same order.
Evans' daughter, Precious Evans, told WXIA-TV that her mom worked in real estate and had been at the courthouse that day dealing with an eviction.
Spalding Sheriff Darrell Dix wrote in a Facebook post Saturday that Krystal Evans walked out of the courthouse to her car when Mallory pulled up beside her car and "fired multiple rounds" through the window. Deputies near the front of the courthouse responded to the scene, followed Mallory and tried to pull him over. When Mallory finally did stop, he shot himself in the head, but survived. Krystal Evans, however, did not.
Precious Evans told WXIA-TV, "My mom, literally, called the sheriff — the sheriff's department the day before, because he was stalking her, and they did nothing. Had they had someone to walk out with her, like her friend asked, she would still be here."
Dix denied this claim in the post, claiming that surveillance footage from the day never showed Krystal Evans asking for an escort.
Krystal Evans had previously posted to Facebook saying, "Dude please leave me alone. It's over." In another post from 2023 she told friends and family, "Please know if something happens to me, Mallory did it..."
Dix said in the post, "Do improvements need to be made to the law? Yes, they do. Maybe it wasn't a deputy or my agency that failed, maybe it was the law itself."
Originally published on The Latin Times.
