Claud "Tex" McIver III is an Attorney from Atlanta, Georgia who is currently arrested without bail at Fulton County Jail for "accidentally" killing his wife. ^[1]

Claud was born in the state of Texas- as of yet it is unknown which part of Texas he grew up in. Yet, he enjoyed being in nature and out in the country growing up.

McIver has been an attorney for more than 40 years in the state of Georgia.

He is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Gun violence.

He was also a partner in the Atlanta office of Fisher Phillips LLP specializing in labor and employment law.

He is also a vice president of the Georgia State Election Board.

In November 2005, the couple got married after knowing each other for some time and working together on a settlement.

They met while working together on a years-long lawsuit that her company, Corey, alleged municipal bias in the awarding of contracts at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

The city of Atlanta settled in 2011, agreeing to pay the company $3.9 million.

The wedding was a little bit country and a little bit big money.

As the ceremony took place, Diane arrived in a two-horse coach clattering over the rolling terrain of Putnam County.

Part of the route stretched across a pond’s dam; everyone could see her approach.

She stepped out on their 85-acre farm’s front lawn.

She was clad in white, a plumed hat capping a mass of dark hair.

The guests, seated on hay bales, smiled.

The bride’s horse was the maid of honor, a mare, with flowers ringing her head.

The wedding reflected the couple — well-off, yes, but not too far off from their roots.

The groom, Claud “Tex” McIver, never lost the Texas boy in himself.

Despite rising to the top circles of the legal and political worlds in this state, he still wore cowboy boots with his dress suits.

The two lived a married life in Buckhead, but they also bought a farm in Putnam with ic actually the place where Tex and Diane truly lived.

It’s where Tex delights in long-horned steer, a pronged reminder of his earlier days in Texas.

In Georgia Politics, McIver rose through the ranks to the point that governor Sonny Perdue would appoint Tex McIver to the state Board of Elections. In his position as vice chair of elections board, McIver has represented GOP interests in one of the most influential, if least publicized, public panels in Georgia.

In 1990, he was indicted on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm, and criminal damage to property.

The charges against him were dropped after he agreed to pay for the damages for the property that he devastated.

On February 27th, 1990, as Tex arrived late into the night, his wife (his first wife) informed him that she was alarmed as there was a Ford Mustang at their end of the cul-de-sac near the Cravey Trail in the northeast Atlanta.

Tex grabbed his glock, stepped outside, and fired a warning shot.

The men the got inside the car to get away, and as they drove through the block and came near Tex, they attempted to run him over, in which Tex had to jump out of the way.

Tex then got up and fire multiple shots at the vehicle.

The Mustang carrying the men got away.

Yet, according to the members involved in the incident, there wasn't a warning shot at all, but that Tex immediately began shooting towards the car.

The young men were having some beer, minding their business, when Tex felt that he was threatened.

The police filed criminal charges against Tex.

A grand jury indicted him, and after nine months the District Attorney's office dropped the case after coming to a settlement.

At around 10:40 p.m. on September 25 as Diane and Tex McIver were riding in the 2013 Ford Expedition from their sprawling farm in rural Putnam County to their apartment in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, the fatal incident took place.

Their friend, Dani Jo Carte, drove the car as a drowsy Diane sank asleep in the passenger seat, and Tex sat in in the backseat directly behind his wife Diane.

As they approached a perilous neighborhood in the streets of ATL, Tex asked for his.38-caliber revolver as a way to protect himself.

He kept the gun in his lap, and as he fell asleep, he awoke startled and shot off his gun, ending the life of his wife.

An autopsy report came back saying that she died of the gunshot.

After much of the investigation took place, about two weeks later, Tex came forward and gave statement declaring that the incident was an accident.

Reports also came that Tex's decision to arm himself is a direct response to how he feels about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Jo Carte, in a interview, revealed that they had taken another path to get home not familiar to the one McIver's would take.

She revealed that the car was parked when the gunshot went off.

Along with some of his peers, Tex organized for many of his wife's possessions to be sold at an auction as part of an estate sales that lasts several days.

Many of what was sold were his wife’s clothing, jewelry, hats furs and many more.

It was revealed in late December, 2017, that he owed his wife about $350,000 which was loaned in order to pay the barn that was built for guests on their estate.

On December 21st, 2016, Atlanta Police charged Tex McIver with Involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct in the shooting death of his wife. The charges suggest they believe Tex McIver’s claim that the shooting was an accident.

Tex was seeking a bond which was then revoked after a Glock was found inside of the sock drawer of his Buckhead condo.

Prosecutors don't believe that the shooting was an accident after they served multiple subpoenas seeking the financial records of Tex.

He is once again indicted on a charge of malice murder along with another 6 chargers, which includes the three counts of influencing a witness.