--- title: Bullet Sticks in Florida Man's Testicle After Wife Shot Him description: A man was left with a bullet stuck in his testicle after his wife allegedly shot him during a recent confrontation over a purported affair. canonical: https://time.com/4278286/bullet-in-testicle-florida/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-31T19:51:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:17.334Z og:title: Bullet Lodged in Florida Man's Testicle After Wife Shoots Him for Cheating og:description: It originally hit him in the knee og:url: https://time.com/4278286/bullet-in-testicle-florida/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bullet Lodged in Florida Man's Testicle After Wife Shoots Him for Cheating twitter:description: It originally hit him in the knee twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bullet Lodged in Florida Man's Testicle After Wife Shoots Him for Cheating  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 7:51 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 7:51 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/715604370868609025) A Florida man was left with a bullet stuck in his testicle after his [wife allegedly shot](http://time.com/3662154/breakfast-in-bed-shooting/) him during a [recent confrontation](http://time.com/3986644/happy-marriage-secrets/) over a purported affair. According to the [Brevard County Sheriff’s Office](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/bullet-lodges-in-florida-mans-testicle-after-wife-shoots-him-for-having-an-affair-deputies/), 60-year-old Victoria Reid forced her husband to sit on the couch while she threatened to maim him, kill him, and give him post-traumatic stress disorder — a condition she also suffers from — to punish him for [supposedly cheating](http://time.com/4245762/wisconsin-man-waterboarding-girlfriend/) on her. The bullet she eventually fired struck him in the knee before traveling up his leg and lodging in his testicle, authorities said. **Read More:** [Man Arrested for Not Returning a 14-Year Overdue VHS Tape of _Freddy Got Fingered_](http://time.com/4271151/man-arrested-not-freddy-got-fingered-overdue-vhs-tape/) Reid was arrested Wednesday on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault. Her husband’s condition is not known. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4278286/bullet-in-testicle-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4278286/bullet-in-testicle-florida/"},"headline":"Bullet Lodged in Florida Man's Testicle After Wife Shoots Him for Cheating","datePublished":"2016-03-31T19:51:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:17.334Z","description":"A man was left with a bullet stuck in his testicle after his wife allegedly shot him during a recent confrontation over a purported affair.","url":"https://time.com/4278286/bullet-in-testicle-florida/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","assault","Florida","Guns"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4278286/bullet-in-testicle-florida/","name":"Bullet Lodged in Florida Man's Testicle After Wife Shoots Him for Cheating"}}]}] ```