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Q: Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that he accidentally shot and killed his wife as they rode in their SUV near Piedmont Park. 
  
 Asked by a reporter if he purposely shot Diane McIver, Tex McIver responded, “I absolutely did not. She was my life partner. My life as I know it is ruined because of this accident.” 
  
 His exclusive phone interview with the AJC marked his first public comments since the shooting on Sept. 25. 
  
 Police have said very little about the case, involving a prominent Atlanta couple. Their investigation is ongoing. Legal experts have said Tex McIver could face criminal charges, even if the shooting was accidental. 
  
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 In a wide-ranging interview with the AJC on Thursday, McIver’s attorney Stephen Maples contradicted several parts of an early version of the story - put out by a family spokesman - including the couple’s fear of Black Lives Matter protesters. 
  
 Bill Crane had told the newspaper last week that Tex and Diane McIver became alarmed when their SUV was approached by several individuals. They were also worried about unrest surrounding recent Black Lives Matter protests in the area, Crane said. 
  
 But Maples said Thursday the couple were not thinking of Black Lives Matter, or anything racial, when they decided to pull out their .38 snubnosed revolver from the center console of their SUV. They merely saw some people milling about in an area known to have homeless people, and took a cautionary measure, Maples said. 
  
 Maples said that the couple were driving home to Buckhead from their other home in Putnam County when they pulled off I-85 onto Edgewood Ave. due to traffic. McIver was in the back seat. He awoke saw some people milling about and asked his wife in the front seat to retrieve the gun, Maples said. He said homeless people have been known to hang out under the overpass there. 
  
 Soon after he fell back to sleep, the gun in a plastic bag in his lap. 
  
 He was jarred awake near Piedmont Park, Maples said. 
  
 McIver told the AJC, “I was suddenly awoken. I lurched and the gun fired.” 
  
 He added, “I must have forgotten it was in my lap. I saw a flash.” 
  
 He said it was an accident and that he loved his wife, president of Corey Airport Services, a marketing and advertising company. 
  
 “There’s nothing I want to do but join her,” he said. 
  
 The grief is overwhelming, he said. 
  
 “I’m down to crying 25 times a day,” he said. “If I’m not feeling guilty, I’m feeling grief.” 
  
 Also on Thursday, Maples said Crane, the family spokesman, had been incorrect when he said that the couple had not been drinking. At dinner, Diane McIver ordered a bottle of red wine. She drank about two glasses and her husband drank less than a half glass. 
  
 In addition, he said Crane was incorrect when he said that the gun went off after the couple’s vehicle hit a bump on Piedmont Avenue. There is a slight depression in the road there, said Maples, but it is unclear exactly what happened to jar McIver awake. 
  
 Maples showed the AJC a copy of the police search warrant to examine the McIver’s vehicle. The search warrant had a line that asked for the name of the “law being violated,” and typed there was “Involuntary manslaughter - felony.” 
  
 Maples downplayed the importance of the listing, saying the police have to put something in that space in order to obtain the search warrant. He did not take it to represent the direction of the investigation. 
  
 Tex McIver took a polygraph test Wednesday - arranged by his lawyer - which indicated that he was truthful when he said that the shooting was an accident, said Richard Rackleff of Federal Polygraph Associates. 
  
 “It clearly shows on the chart that he was being truthful,” said Rackleff. He added, “Unquestionably it’s a total accident.” 
  
 Rackleff had administered a polygraph to Richard Jewell after the Centennial Olympic bombing during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. That test indicated Jewell was not the Olympic bomber, he said. 
  
 Maples also told the AJC that he suspects the Atlanta police investigation is winding down does not believe McIver will be criminally charged. The Atlanta police contacted Maples days ago and asked for Diane McIver’s various phone numbers. While he has no knowledge of where the investigation stands, he said he took that to mean the police may well be putting the last touches on the case. 
  
 As for any criminal charges, he said that McIver was not acting in an reckless or criminal way. 
  
 “He was not toying with the gun. He was not playing with the gun,” Maples said. ||||| Just a week after Atlanta lawyer Tex McIver bonded out of jail on charges connected to the death of his wife, CBS46 has learned he owed her $350,000. 
  
 Court documents show a business his wife, Diane McIver, owned loaned Tex McIver the money in December 2011. He was supposed to pay her back with interest by December 2014. 
  
 That never happened. Documents show he was given an extension to December 2017. 
  
 It's been three months since Diane McIver was killed while on her way home from their north Georgia farmhouse. Tex McIver says he accidentally shot her while riding in the back seat. He is being charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. 
  
 The shocking new information brings more questions to the case involving the death of the successful Buckhead business woman. 
  
 Tex McIver's attorney, Steve Maples, confirmed the loan exists but wouldn't elaborate. 
  
 CBS46 has learned the couple did keep their money separate but although the documents were filed through a county court, it's not clear why Diane McIver loaned her husband the money or what he needed the loan for. 
  
 CBS46 reached out to the district attorney's office, who wouldn't comment because of the open investigation. 
  
 Tex McIver is expected back in court on January 5 for a multipurpose hearing. 
  
 Copyright 2016 WGCL-TV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved. ||||| Atlanta lawyer Claud “Tex” McIver was driving with his wife Sunday night near Piedmont Park when their car hit a bump and a gun in his lap accidentally fired, killing his wife, a family spokesman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 
  
 Diane McIver was taken to Emory University Hospital on Clifton Road and died in surgery several hours later. 
  
 The incident unfolded after the McIvers vehicle was approached by several individuals near the intersection of Peachtree and Pine streets in Midtown, spokesman Bill Crane, a McIver family friend, said. 
  
 The McIvers retrieved their gun — a .38 snub-nose revolver — from the center console of the 2013 Ford Expedition, alarmed about recent unrest surrounding several Black Lives Matter protests in the area and fearing a carjacking, Crane told The AJC. 
  
 The couple, who were being driven by an unidentified individual, left the area unharmed. But several blocks later on Piedmont Ave. near the park, the SUV hit a bump and the gun fired, Crane said. It was still wrapped in a plastic Publix bag in which it had been stored, Crane said. 
  
 Crane said McIver does not remember firing the gun. He was leaning back in the seat and nodding off when they hit the bump, the gun in his lap, Crane said. 
  
 Tex McIver was in the SUV’s back seat. Diane McIver was seated in the front passenger seat. 
  
 The Fulton County Medical Examiner said she died of a gunshot wound to the back that had passed through the seat. 
  
 The couple had been traveling from their home in rural Putnam County to another in Buckhead. The driver exited at the Downtown Connector at Edgewood Avenue to avoid traffic, Crane said. 
  
 “It’s a tragedy. They are two great professionals, philanthropists,” Crane said. 
  
 Crane said Tex McIver is “under extreme duress. Trauma.” 
  
 Crane said the couple had not been drinking. 
  
 The Atlanta Police Department has said almost nothing about the case, which involves two prominent residents. They declined to elaborate on Friday. 
  
 They released an incident report of the shooting on Wednesday, more than two days after officers responded to a call of a gunshot victim at the university hospital. 
  
 “This is one of those situations we’re working through very slowly,” police Sgt. Warren Pickard said. “We want to get it right.” 
  
 The police report did not list who was in the SUV, other than Diane McIver. An officer talked to the driver, but didn’t include in the report what the driver said. Nor did the report say why the driver took the injured woman to a hospital on Clifton Road, 4 ½ miles away. Piedmont Hospital is less than half that distance from the shooting scene. 
  
 Diane McIver, whom one associate described as “extremely intellectual,” made a successful career as president of Corey Airport Services, an Atlanta-based marketing company. 
  
 Her husband, a partner in his firm, is vice president of the Georgia State Election Board. In August, he assumed another seat on another board. The American Bar Association appointed him to the advisory committee of the association’s Standing Committee on Gun Violence. ||||| The prominent Atlanta attorney who fatally shot his wife last month — in what he claims was a terrible accident — was indicted nearly 30 years ago on gun and assault charges, though the charges were later dropped, PEOPLE confirms. 
  
 A 1990 case file released this week to the media details an alleged encounter between Claud “Tex” McIver, 63, and three teenagers which eventually led to criminal charges. The three teenagers told detectives McIver had allegedly fired several shots into their car. 
  
 The case was later dropped following a settlement, according to court records. The terms were never publicly disclosed. 
  
 However, that incident has “absolutely” nothing to do with the September shooting of McIver’s wife, McIver’s attorney tells PEOPLE. 
  
 On Sept. 25, McIver was riding in his car’s back seat in Atlanta when he claims his .38 snub-nose revolver accidentally went off, fatally wounding his wife, Diane, who was seated in the front passenger seat. 
  
 The vehicle was being driven by Diane’s best friend at the time, according to McIver’s lawyer, Steve Maples, who tells PEOPLE the gun fired after the car hit a speed bump. 
  
 McIver told police he had been holding his gun in his lap after several individuals approached the vehicle, and it fired as he was dozing off. He told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he “lurched” awake suddenly and fired the gun. 
  
 His wife was taken to Emory University Hospital and died in surgery several hours later. She was 63. The Fulton County Medical Examiner determined she died of a gunshot wound to the back that had passed through the seat. 
  
 The incident remains under investigation. Atlanta police have described the case as “complicated” but have declined to publicly discuss it in detail, according to the AJC. 
  
 In a strange development, police rebuked a family spokesman who initially provided accounts of the shooting to the media. 
  
 (Among other statements, according to the AJC, the family friend told reporters that the McIvers had been unsettled that night by recent stories of volatile Black Lives Matter protests and were afraid of being carjacked.) 
  
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 1990 Indictment Is ‘Simply a Distraction’: Attorney 
  
 Maples confirms that, 26 years ago, McIver allegedly released his two German shepherds on three teens who were loitering outside his DeKalb County home in the Atlanta area. 
  
 McIver also allegedly fired several shots into the air before pointing the gun at the teens’ car and pulling the trigger twice. Two rounds entered the passenger side of the vehicle. 
  
 No one was injured in the incident, but McIver was indicted on aggravated assault, possession of a firearm in connection with a crime, and criminal damage to property charges. 
  
 “That case has absolutely nothing to do with this incident — they’re not related in any manner,” Maples tells PEOPLE. “It’s simply a distraction that has absolutely noting to do with last month’s tragedy. He was charged and falsely accused.” 
  
 McIver has not been charged in connection with his wife’s shooting death, which Maples asserts was completely unintentional. 
  
 “This was an accident,” Maples tells PEOPLE, noting McIver has passed a polygraph test about the shooting indicating it was unintentional. (As proof, Maples provided PEOPLE with a report from Federal Polygraph Associates.) 
  
 “He was completely truthful in answering all of the questions,” Maples says of McIver, adding he doesn’t anticipate McIver will face any charges. 
  
 “He is traumatized by this, by losing his best friend and the person he loves,” Maples tells PEOPLE when asked how McIver is managing after last month’s shooting. “They were the couple that still held hands. He still opened doors for her and would pull her chair out … they had the kind of marriage everyone should have.” 
  
 Diane was president of the Atlanta-based marketing company Corey Airport Services, where she worked for 43 years. Employees described her as a “passionate leader and prominent businesswoman” on the company’s Facebook page. 
  
 Tex is a partner at law firm Fisher Phillips and is on the advisory committee of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Gun Violence. ||||| Just One More Thing... 
  
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An Atlanta attorney facing manslaughter charges in the September shooting death of his wife owed her $350,000 when she died, CBS46 reports. A business owned by Diane McIver had spotted her husband, Claud "Tex" McIver, the money in December 2011, with a payoff date (with interest) set for December 2014, per court docs. When that payoff didn't happen, Claud was offered a three-year extension. In a previous interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McIver said the loan had gone toward building a $1.3 million barn on the couple's property, complete with stables, a saloon, and guest accommodations. The shooting took place on Sept. 25, when Claud says Diane was sitting in the front passenger seat of an SUV her best friend was driving, with him in the seat directly behind Diane. He claims he nodded off in the back, and when he jolted awake, a gun he was holding accidentally discharged. A family friend told the AJC a few days after the shooting that the McIvers were fearful of a carjacking due to recent Black Lives Matter protests nearby, but Claud's attorney nixed that allegation about a week later, telling the paper the couple was nervous because of homeless people wandering in the area. Also of note, per court records seen by People: Claud McIver was indicted in 1990 for aggravated assault, possession of a firearm in connection with a crime, and criminal damage to property charges after three teens say he shot several times at their car. The court files note that case was settled with undisclosed terms. (A "black widow" down South?)