美国一名被判家暴罪名确立的男子，回家朝妻子额头正中央近距离轰了一枪后自我了断，结果男子当场死亡，妻子却在子弹贯穿脑门后，没事般替自己泡了杯茶，还问赶到现场的警员「出了什么事？要不要也来杯茶？」，令警察啧啧称奇。事情14日发生于密西西比州，57岁男子萨克斯顿午夜过后不久返回在贾克森郡乡下的家中，怒气冲冲找47岁的妻子泰咪·萨克斯顿理论。一名亲戚见状冲出门报警，这时萨克斯顿朝在床上的妻子直直的开了一枪，一颗点38子弹贯穿泰咪头颅，再从后脑射出。萨克斯顿开枪后走到后门廊饮弹自尽。

萨克斯顿4月9日被判家暴罪名成立，缓刑6个月。前些日子，贾克森郡的副警长还在到处找他，要交给他法院判决文档，并命令他不得接近泰咪。

警长柏德说，几名警员于案发数分钟后抵达现场，以为要处理的是一桩谋杀兼自杀案件，没想到泰咪竟照常与他们谈话，只是头上多绑了条布。她的床头柜上多了杯茶，显然她曾起身到微波炉，替自己泡了这杯茶。一名警员说，他很肯定泰咪是在事后替自己泡的茶。

泰咪人是有点迷糊，但意识非常清醒，她问警员出了什么事，还问他们要不要杯茶喝。柏德说，头部受伤的案件他见多了，头部中弹很少活得成，而泰咪居然还能好端端给自己泡茶。柏德说：「这绝对是个奇迹。」

泰咪被直升机火速送往医院急救，已住院三天，当前情况良好，医生表示她一定能完全康复。柏德认为，子弹显然穿过泰咪的脑叶，但未造成重创。

Woman makes cup of tea after being shot in head

An American woman who was shot in the head by her husband not only survived but made herself a cup of tea.

By Our Foreign Staff and Agencies in Birmingham, Alabama

Last Updated: 12:18PM BST 18 Apr 2009

Police and doctors hailed the survival of Tammy Sexton, 47, as miraculous after a bullet from a .38-calibre handgun struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head. She is expected to make a full recovery, while her husband shot himself dead after the attack on his wife.

But law enforcement officers in Jackson County, Mississippi, were also astonished that Mrs Sexton offered them tea when they arrived at her home after the shooting.

Sheriff Mike Byrd said: "When the officer got there she said, 'What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened.

"She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.

"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God. You just don't hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they're dead."

He said that her husband had been on probation for domestic violence and officers had been seeking to serve him with a court order demanding he stayed away from his wife and their rural home.

He said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman's brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to hospital by helicopter where shehas been monitored for three days.

Dr Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, said: "There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage.

"Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare."