OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A Menasha woman was found guilty Wednesday of fatally shooting her boyfriend.
55-year-old Catherine Cheskie’s three-day trial ended with a first-degree intentional homicide conviction for the Feb. 24 shooting of Thomas Guyette, 71, at a Menasha residence.
Sentencing details were not immediately available.
According to prosecutors, a man who rents a room in the basement of the Chute Street home where the victim lived heard the two arguing early Saturday morning, then heard a gunshot. The witness went upstairs to see what was going on and saw Guyette on his bed. Guyette said, “I’m shot,” and the witness called 911. Police arrived to find Guyette dead of a gunshot wound to the chest.
Cheskie denied shooting Guyette, at one point saying she was legally blind and could not accurately hit a target. She also said she did not believe he had shot himself. Tests showed gunshot residue on Cheskie’s hands, which she explained by saying that she moved the gun away from Guyette after he had been shot. However, prosecutors say her stories were inconsistent about whether the gun was in his hands or on the bed next to him.
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