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January 10, 2015
A judge sentenced a Massachusetts steelworker to 20 years in prison and eight years of extended supervision in connection with his former girlfriend’s shooting death.
Forty-year-old Phillip Byrd pleaded guilty in July to one count of second-degree intentional homicide. He will not be eligible for early release.
“I’m really sorry as far as what I’m putting my family through,” Byrd said in court Tuesday. “They don’t deserve this and neither does Cheryl’s family deserve to not be with her.”
Sheriff’s deputies discovered Cheryl Gilberg dead in her Mazomanie home in February. Investigators arrested Byrd in Janesville the next day. According to court documents, he told investigators he and Gilberg got into a fight and her gun went off twice during the struggle.
A criminal complaint states that Byrd told detectives that the incident started in her home when Gilberg pointed a gun at him, ordered him to his knees and put a gun in his mouth. He said he was able to knock her hand away and began wrestling with Gilberg and knocked her onto a bed while he tried to get the gun out of her hand. He told detectives that he was able to knock the gun out of her hand, and he tackled her as she retrieved the gun.
Byrd said that while on the floor he was able to get on top of her and hit her again. He told detectives he put a pillow over her face to restrict her vision and was trying to get her finger out of the trigger guard when the gun fired into the pillow. He said it went off again as he continued to try to wrestle the gun out of her hand. He said she didn’t pull the trigger.
Byrd said he thought she was still alive when he left the scene.
Gilberg was shot twice in the head, officials said.
