A novel way of cleaning up!

I'm still trying to figure out what Lonnie Pinnix of Reidsville, North Carolina, was trying to achieve.

According to the sheriff's office, Darlene Pinnix came home and found her husband agitated. She lay down on the bed, but Lonnie Pinnix held a pistol and told her to get up. Before she could, he fired, hitting her in the back.

Darlene Pinnix suffered a powder burn from the gunshot. She was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Lonnie Pinnix told police he loaded the pistol with toilet paper instead of bullets and shot his wife because she would not leave.

There's more at the link. Italic print is my emphasis.

He loaded his gun with toilet paper??? Surely that's not the usual way to 'clean up the town'? I wonder what was at tissue between them?



Peter