Jessica Edwards’ husband says she died during a fight about guinea pigs

A Connecticut man accused of killing his wife confessed to kneeling on her neck until she stopped breathing, claiming that they were in a violent fight over guinea pigs that he gave her as a present, police said.

Tahj Hutchinson, 22, told authorities that a fight with his wife, Jessica Edwards, 30, over Mother’s Day weekend turned physical at their South Windsor home, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. He said that the couple was bickering because Edwards wanted to go to the nail salon and he had given her guinea pigs as a gift, the Journal Enquirer reported.