By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter

jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — A Greenville woman faces multiple charges, including murder, after police claim she shot and killed her husband and staged it to look like a suicide.

Rebbecca Lee Easterling, 51, of 27 Shamrock Circle, was arrested Friday and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to Pickens County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Creed Hashe.

Warrants claim that Easterling shot and killed her husband, Harold Anthony Arnold, on Friday morning.

Arnold, 49, was found dead in bed at a home the couple shared on Belt Road in Easley, Hashe said.

Initial information from a 911 call stated that a shooting had occurred and that one person was injured due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Deputies arriving on the scene were met by Easterling, who said that Arnold had committed suicide while she was in another part of the residence.

Hashe said intensive investigation revealed that the scene had been staged to appear as a self-inflicted injury.

“However, sheriff’s detectives determined that the victim had been intentionally shot one time in the head by his estranged wife,” Hashe said in a news release.

Easterling is being held without bond at the Pickens County Detention Center.