A Clarksville woman who claimed her husband’s shooting death three years ago was an accident has been convicted of murder and will serve a life sentence.
Following a welfare check on Jan. 3, 2022, Clarksville Police officers discovered the body of Sothon In, 38, who had been shot to death inside his Ladd Drive home.
In’s wife, Theary Lim, 32, was charged with criminal homicide and booked into Montgomery County Jail.
According to Robert Nash, District Attorney General for the 19th Judicial District, Lim was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder for shooting and killing her husband on Wednesday, April 30.
According to Nash, the three-day trial revealed that on January 3, 2022, a family friend called 911 after discovering Sothon In’s body in the family home. He had received a single gunshot wound to the head.
Lim and the couple’s two young children were also in the house.
According to testimony at the trial, Lim told Clarksville Police officers that the shooting was an accident.
Surveillance video used during the trial.
Surveillance footage from inside the home captured the family spending time together the morning of the murder, after In returned home from work. He was last seen on camera at 11:27 a.m., receiving a package from the front door.
At 12:15 p.m., Lim is seen locking the front door. According to Nash, at 12:39 p.m., surveillance footage captured the sound of a single gunshot.
Lim is caught on camera immediately after the gunshot, closing the living room blinds while holding the murder weapon. She is then seen walking back and forth through the living room with the gun in her hand, eventually unlocking the front door at 12:59 p.m.
After the jury delivered its verdict, Judge Robert Bateman sentenced Theary Lim to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney General Crystal Morgan and Chief Deputy Assistant District Attorney General Marianne Bell, who were assisted by Victim-Witness Coordinator Shelby Scantling.
