Timothy Harville

Introduction

Timothy Houston Harville, a 61-year-old electrician and farmer from the Hatton community of Lawrence County, Alabama, was convicted of murder on November 4, 2026, for shooting his nephew’s wife, 46-year-old Angela Berryman Hill Harville, in the head with a shotgun in September 2023 — a killing that erupted, prosecutors say, out of an argument over a lost cow and ended after the victim dared him to “blow my brains out.” A Lawrence County jury also found him guilty of first-degree burglary, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and menacing, and he was out on bond on earlier shooting charges at the time of the killing.

Background Information

Harville was the uncle of Angela Harville’s husband, Scott; the two Harvilles were reportedly related by marriage, and Angela Harville’s home sat about half a mile from his own. In December 2022, roughly nine months before the killing, he was arrested on charges of shooting into an occupied dwelling or vehicle and two counts of reckless endangerment, and he was free on bond when Angela Harville was killed. On the evening of September 13, 2023, witnesses told the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office he arrived at her home on County Road 161 around 6:20 p.m.; deputies responding to a report of an unresponsive woman around 6:30 p.m. found her dead of a gunshot wound to the head at the scene.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted of murder. A Lawrence County jury found Timothy Harville guilty on November 4, 2026, of murder, first-degree burglary, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and menacing for the September 13, 2023, shotgun killing of his nephew’s wife, Angela Berryman Hill Harville. His bond was revoked pending a January 2027 sentencing, and his attorney says he maintains his innocence.

According to testimony recounted at a preliminary hearing and in the trial coverage, Harville told investigators he had been searching for a lost cow when he went to Angela Harville’s home that evening. District Attorney Errek Jett said Harville claimed he then saw an unknown man at the house while his nephew was at work and got into a heated exchange with him — in Harville’s telling a man sitting on the porch with a gun, whom investigators identified as family friend Curtis West. Angela Harville’s teenage son said he tried to leave as the confrontation began, but Harville threatened to shoot out the boy’s car tires with the shotgun stowed in his vehicle, then stormed inside the residence.

Angela Harville called her husband and asked him to come home, then tried to defuse the standoff by sending the men into separate rooms. While Scott Harville was still on the phone, he heard his wife and his uncle arguing, and she said: “Go ahead and blow my brains out.” A single gunshot followed, and — per the district attorney — Harville said, “There you go, bitch.” Scott Harville arrived roughly ten minutes later to find his wife dead. Jett said Harville’s account and the prosecution’s “diverged” from the moment he left the pasture: Harville maintained that Angela Harville invited him inside and was alive when he left, but investigators recovered a 12-gauge shotgun from his home that fired the same size ammunition as a shell casing found at the scene, and the indictment alleged he broke into the home and restrained and pointed a gun at another person there, the counts behind the burglary, imprisonment and menacing convictions.

Public Reaction and Consequences

After the verdict, Angela Harville’s family issued a statement through Huntsville affiliate WAFF: “On behalf of the family, we are thrilled for closure. Nothing can bring back their loved one, but at least her death won’t go without justice,” thanking the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office and the twelve jurors. District Attorney Jett publicly walked through the state’s case, telling People that a witness heard the dare and the shot, and that Harville was “the one that was sort of hot under the collar” when he came to the door. Harville’s defense attorney, Paula Bassham, said her client maintains his innocence despite the conviction: “He says that he did not do this. He says he left and she was alive and well … There’s absolutely no physical evidence that linked him to this. No blood, no DNA, no shotgun, nothing.”

Current Status

Harville remains convicted but not yet sentenced. District Attorney Jett said his bond has been revoked pending a sentencing hearing currently scheduled for January 7, 2027, and Law&Crime, citing local coverage, reported he may spend the rest of his life in prison. Through his attorney he maintains his innocence, telling People he “did not do this” and was not linked to the killing by any physical evidence. The four guilty verdicts stand, and the sentencing hearing is the next scheduled court date as of November 6, 2026.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Harville went from a working electrician and farmer in a rural Alabama community to a convicted murderer facing a potential life sentence, with his 2023 arrest record — he had already been charged with shooting into an occupied dwelling or vehicle and reckless endangerment months before the killing — now folded into a four-count conviction. For Angela Harville’s family, the verdict delivered the closure they described in their post-trial statement, three years after her death. The case’s strangest detail — that a dispute over a missing cow ended in a shotgun killing inside a relative’s home half a mile away — is what carried the story onto national outlets and made the victim’s final dare the line the coverage remembers.

Sources

• The New York Post, “Alabama man Timothy Harville found guilty of fatally shooting nephew’s wife after she issued haunting dare during argument over lost cow,” November 6, 2026. source
• People, “Man Convicted of Killing Nephew’s Wife Said He Was Out Looking for a Lost Cow Before Shooting: Prosecutors,” November 5, 2026. source
• WHNT News 19, “Lawrence County man convicted of murder, other charges in 2023 shooting,” November 5, 2026. source
• Law&Crime, “Man convicted of killing niece during argument over lost cow,” November 5, 2026. source
• WAFF 48, “Lawrence Co. man found guilty in 2023 murder,” November 4, 2026. source