WHITE CLOUD, Mich. (WOOD) — A jury has found a woman guilty in the murder of her husband who died in their Sand Lake-area home in 2015. 
 
 On Wednesday, 46-year-old Glenna Duram was found guilty of first-degree murder and a felony firearm charge in Newaygo County Court. 
 
 Martin Duram was shot five times and found dead in their Ensley Township home in May 2015. Glenna Duram survived a bullet wound to the head in what prosecutors said was a suicide attempt. 
 
 Family members said the couple’s pet, an African grey parrot named Bud, seemed to replay the murder by mimicking what sounds like an argument between a male and female. 
 
 In a video the family said it took several weeks after the incident, the bird says, “Don’t f—ing shoot.” 
 
 The prosecutor previously said the bird wasn’t ruled out as a potential piece of evidence, but did not end up using the pet in court. 
 
 Duram is expected back in court for sentencing on Aug. 28. 
 
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 NEWAYGO COUNTY, Mich. — More than a year after a man was found shot to death at his home in Sand Lake, murder charges have been filed against his wife. 
 
 Glenna Duram was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and felony firearm possession. She is being held without bond, accused of killing her husband Martin "Marty" Duram May 13, 2015 at their home in Sand Lake. 
 
 Marty was shot five times, including once in the head. He was dead at the scene. Glenna was critically injured at the scene as well. 
 
 According to Marty's parents, Charles and Lillian, it stemmed from a domestic fight that got out of hand. 
 
 "No matter what happens I lose, I lost a son and I’m gonna lose a daughter-in-law," said Charles Duram. "But when I wake up in the morning my wife ain’t crying and asking for justice, I can live with that." 
 
 Duram's parents told FOX 17 in October 2015, apparent suicide notes were found in the days after the killing, allegedly written by Glenna in the couple's home. A handgun believed to be the murder weapon was also found. 
 
 There was also an unlikely alleged witness to the crime, Duram's pet parrot named Bud who's now living with his ex-wife, Christian Keller. 
 
 "Bud was mine and Marty’s parrot when we were married," said Keller. "He ended up keeping bud for the 15 years we have been not married, I got bud back after this situation had happened. Two weeks after the incident, Bud started going into rants I couldn’t explain. Screaming, yelling, and always ending with 'don’t f**** shoot.' I believe with all my heart that those are pretty close to last words of Marty." 
 
 Documents obtained by FOX 17 in October show the couple had a history of gambling and money issues. Just one month before the shooting, they learned their home was being foreclosed on. Police say both Martin and Glenna had children from previous marriages. ||||| SAND LAKE, Mich. (WOOD) — Bud is an African grey parrot with a filthy mouth who also may have witnessed his owner’s murder, relatives of the victim say. 
 
 “Don’t f—ing shoot,” the bird says on a video that the family says it took several weeks after the shooting. 
 
 Martin Duram, 45, was shot and killed in his home on 128th Street in Ensley Township in May 2015 in what police first thought was a double-homicide. Police also found his wife, Glenna, in the home with a gunshot wound to the head. They realized an hour later she was still alive. 
 
 Now, Michigan State Police reports obtained by 24 Hour News 8 under the Freedom of Information Act list the wife as a suspect, suggesting she tried to pull off a murder-suicide. She has since recovered from her injury. 
 
 Duram’s parents said they’re frustrated that nobody has been charged in the death. 
 
 They also say they believe the bird is a witness. 
 
 “That bird picks up everything and anything, and it’s got the filthiest mouth around,” Duram’s mom, Lillian Duram, said. 
 
 The bird, they said, mimicked both Durham and his wife. The video shows the bird, clinging to the outside of a cage, changing voices, almost as if it were arguing. 
 
 “I personally think he was there and he remembers it and he was saying it,” Duram’s father, Charles Duram, said. 
 
 Police reports obtained by 24 Hour News 8 show that a witness asked police whether they could use the bird as evidence, but they don’t show that the detective responded. 
 
 Newaygo County Prosecutor Robert Springstead said he’s aware the couple had a bird that talked but that he had not seen the video. 
 
 The owner of Casa La Parrot in Grand Rapids said it’s not unusual for African grey parrots to mimic male and female voices. 
 
 “It’s definitely an argument between a man and a woman,” she said after watching the video. 
 
 She said she clearly heard the bird say, “Don’t f—ing shoot.” African grey parrots usually mimic things they’ve heard repeatedly, but she said birds can say words they’ve heard just a few times. 
 
 “In my mind, it’s something that he’s heard, definitely heard before. And if it’s fresh in his mind, he might even say it more now,” she said. 
 
 State police identified the wife as a suspect in a murder-attempted suicide, suggesting she shot him five times before turning the gun on herself. 
 
 Police records detail financial problems, gambling problems and a potentially troubled marriage, ending with the killing of Martin Duram with a gun he kept at his home. Police say Glenna Duram left three suicide notes, one to her ex-husband and one to each of her children: 
 
 “i’m sorry but i love you and soo sorry i’ve been a disappointment to you these last 12 yrs or so Please forgive me your one of the best things I ever did — Love mom.” 
 
 But in an interview with police after she recovered, she denied killing him, saying she remembered nothing until she was in the hospital. 
 
 “I know for a fact I didn’t kill my husband,” police quoted her as saying. 
 
 She also said she didn’t remember writing the suicide letters, but a handwriting analysis showed she did, police said. 
 
 The victim’s mom wonders why prosecutors haven’t filed charges. 
 
 “It’s frustrating. I cry,” she said. 
 
 “The worst thing for a husband to do is look over at his wife crying and there’s absolutely no way of comforting this woman because there’s no settlement there at all,” her husband said. 
 
 The victim’s father said he is not ready to convict his daughter-in-law. 
 
 “I got hope that maybe there’s something out there that we don’t know about that can change this whole situation,” he said. 
 
 His wife disagrees. 
 
 “The b—- did it,” she said. 
 
 The prosecutor said he expects to decide in two or three weeks whether to file charges. He said he’s waiting for Michigan State Police to finish the investigation. 
 
 “There’s some evidence to support” the theory that Glenna Duram killed her husband, Springstead said. 
 
 “Although the law allows charging on probable cause, I don’t like to do that, especially when you have a very serious case,” he said. “When the investigation is done, I like to be satisfied there’s proof beyond a reasonable doubt.” 
 
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– A jury has convicted a western Michigan woman of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband in a crime apparently witnessed by the man's pet parrot. The Newaygo County jury deliberated about eight hours before finding 49-year-old Glenna Duram guilty Wednesday of killing 46-year-old Martin Duram, reports the AP. He was shot five times in May 2015. Glenna Duram suffered a head wound in what prosecutors said was a suicide attempt, but survived. Martin Duram's ex-wife, Christina Keller, has said that after the slaying, the African grey parrot, Bud, repeated "don't (expletive) shoot" in Martin Duram's voice. Keller took ownership of the bird after Martin Duram's death. MLive reports that police floated money woes as a possible motive, and notes the couple's home was in foreclosure at the time. WOOD reports the pet was not "used" in court. Duram is due to be sentenced Aug. 28 on the murder and a felony firearm charge.