EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – An Excelsior Springs-area man is dead and his wife is under arrest, Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers stated. Childers said his office took a domestic violence call “with shots fired” about midnight Wednesday on Shoemaker Road east of the city. “When a male party was found dead upon arrival, a female suspect was taken into custody,” he said. The deceased is James Peterson, 56. The suspect, his wife, Jacqueline Peterson, is 52. “He was shot eight times,” Childers said. A female and a male deputy inter viewed Jacqueline Peterson after the incident for her side of the story, Childers said. He made sure to include a female deputy, he said, to avoid any potential allegation of unfair treatment. “She’s saying that he hit her, all kinds of stuff – he head-butted her, grabbed her by the arm, shook her, choked her, smacked her on each side of the face,” he said, and added, “She has absolutely no marks.” The couple had children, but all are grownups, Childers said. …