Phillips Ranch woman accused of killing her husband appears in court

"It's a nice neighborhood," Stone said. "It's in Phillips Ranch."

Stone said the couple's 8-year-old son, who was home at the time of the shooting, slept through the sound of the gunshot.

After she shot her husband, Davidson called the couple's daughter, in her 20s, and asked her to drive to the family home, Stone said.

When the daughter arrived, Davidson asked the woman to drive her to a police station. She did not tell the daughter why she wanted to be taken to police, Stone said.

Davidson woke up her 8-year-old son, and along with the daughter the three of them drove to the Walnut station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Stone said.

"She told (deputies) she was there to turn herself in, and that she had just killed her husband," Stone said.

Sheriff's deputies contacted Pomona police about the woman's confession, and officers immediately went to the family's home, where they found Ezra Davidson dead about 3:30 a.m., Stone said.

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Stone said Davidson did not go into detail about her reasons for killing her husband when she talked to sheriff's deputies.

Police believe that family issues motivated the woman to kill based on interviews with friends and family members, Stone said.

At Davidson's arraignment hearing, she was dressed street clothes -- dark pants and a white shirt -- even though she had been in the Pomona Police Department jail since her arrest.

Deputy District Attorney Miji Vellakkatel, Davidson's prosecutor, declined to comment on the details of the shooting.