Man charged in deadly Iowa County shooting says gun went off accidentally

A 34-year-old Iowa County man charged in the deadly shooting of a woman last week told deputies the gun accidentally went off when he was picking it up. Timothy Sontic, of rural Spring Green, is charged with one felony count of homicide by intoxicated use of a firearm in the Jan. 25 shooting at his home on Percussion Rock Road in the town of Wyoming. The shooting sent the woman to a Madison hospital in critical condition. She later died on Monday from her injuries. According to a criminal complaint, when deputies from the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office got to the scene just before 9 p.m., Sontic was kneeling next to the victim with his hands up. When deputies asked him what happened, he said the gun went off as he picked it up.