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   This story brought a smile to the face of Jesus, Zombie King.   
      
      
   Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 10:41 a.m.   
   ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer   
      
   COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? A woman who called 911 after a fatal shooting at an   
   Easter   
   party told a police dispatcher she shot a relative after she retrieved a gun to   
   prove a point and it went off.   
      
   The woman told the dispatcher that she shot her niece, apparently referring to   
   a   
   19-year-old woman killed during a fight that police say started over a skimpy   
   Easter outfit ? jean shorts and a green T-shirt tied up around her midriff.   
      
   "I just shot my niece," the woman says calmly at the beginning of the 33-second   
   call released to The Associated Press on Tuesday.   
      
   "I didn't mean to do it," the woman said. "We was arguing, I tried to get my   
   gun to   
   prove a point, they got the rifle with me and it went off."   
      
   Asked about the location of her niece, the woman says bluntly, "In the car. I   
   think   
   she's dead."   
      
   The woman does not give her name but calls herself the victim's aunt. Family   
   members say Evelyn Burgess, the woman arrested in the shooting, was referred   
   to as   
   the victim's aunt, though she was her older second cousin.   
      
   Police say Burgess got into a fight with Danielle Pickens over her attire, then   
   shot her outside Burgess' house Sunday night. Pickens died at a hospital early   
   the   
   next day.   
      
   Family members of both women said Tuesday that Danielle Pickens' style of   
   dressing   
   was well-known among relatives.   
      
   Danielle Pickens often wore short skirts to the holiday gatherings hosted by   
   Evelyn   
   Burgess, said Pickens' sister, Ralinda Pickens, and uncle, Tico Pickens.   
      
   "The way she was dressed that day is the way she always dressed, and everybody   
   knew   
   that," said Tico Pickens, 33. "It wasn't like she meant any harm toward nobody   
   by   
   doing it. It was just comfortable to her."   
      
   Burgess, 42, is charged with one count of murder. Franklin County Municipal   
   Court   
   Judge William Pollitt set Burgess' bond at $500,000 during a court appearance   
   Tuesday.   
      
   Burgess didn't say anything at the hearing and doesn't have a lawyer assigned   
   to   
   her yet.   
      
   At her house on Tuesday, her husband, Kevin Burgess, said his wife was doing   
   all   
   right, but he declined to comment further.   
      
   Danielle, who went by Danny, once dressed like a tomboy, then one day tried on   
   a   
   short skirt she liked and started dressing differently.   
      
   "The first time she put on a cute little skirt, I guessed she liked it and she   
   dressed like that ever since," said Ralinda Pickens, 20.   
      
   She says events escalated quickly at the Easter party at Burgess' house on the   
   north side of Columbus.   
      
   Evelyn Burgess was angry at Danielle over her outfit and accused her of   
   flaunting   
   her looks around other men at the party, including Burgess' husband, Ralinda   
   Pickens said.   
      
   A fight broke out with Evelyn Burgess and Danielle struggling with a baseball   
   bat,   
   then ended as Ralinda Pickens broke things up, got her sister outside and   
   prepared   
   to drive her home.   
      
   The sisters were in the car when Burgess came running up with a gun, reached   
   inside   
   the car, pulled Danielle by the hair and shot her as she tried to seek shelter   
   under her older sister, Ralinda Pickens said.   
      
   Burgess then walked back inside her house, sat down on a couch, told people   
   what   
   had happened and waited for the police, Ralinda Pickens said.   
      
   "I never thought she would do something like that," Ralinda Pickens said   
   Tuesday of   
   Burgess, crying softly as she sat on the porch of her house about a five-minute   
   drive from where the shooting happened. "Whatever anger she had built up in her   
   nobody actually knew."   
      
   Evelyn Burgess had bought the gun from a local gun store about a year ago,   
   Ralinda   
   Pickens and Tico Pickens said.   
      
   Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.   
      
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