Woman's dance video on husband’s murder horrifies internet

A woman who lost her husband three days after the birth of their first child has now invited backlash by making a dance video about the incident.

Jessica Ayers, who goes by the moniker ‘The Singing Widow’ on social media, recently posted a TikTok video about the death of her first husband, Don Hogg.

Hogg was killed by a stray bullet inside his Florida house eight years ago. He was getting up from the couch when a bullet, fired by his neighbour, travelled through the window and hit him in the head, killing him on the spot.

In the years following his death, Hogg’s widow, Jessica Ayers, wrote extensively about the freak accident, her grief and how she coped with it in Instagram posts and blog entries – but her latest TikTok video on the murder has been criticised by many as distasteful and disrespectful. The video shows Ayers dancing as on-screen captions narrate the shooting and how Ayers confronted her husband’s killer in one of her “proudest” moments.