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 adde...