Geriatric Love Triangle Murder Case Opens

A 79-year-old grandmother who used a cane to walk to her seat in the courtroom Tuesday was painted by prosecutors as so consumed by a jealous rage last year that she shot her ex-boyfriend four times in the head.

Lena Sims Driskell, wearing brown curls and costume jewelry in court, is charged with murdering her former beau, 85-year-old Herman Winslow, because their yearlong romance had ended and he had found another companion.

"She had been dismissed," Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis said in opening statements. "She didn't appreciate it. And her revenge was four to the head."

Willis told jurors the couple's relationship was no different from any other and warned them not to excuse her actions out of sympathy: "Do not let her off the hook because she reached the age of 78."

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