Rebecca Mryglod pleaded guilty to first-degree domestic battery after the November 2024 shooting in Drasco, Arkansas.
DRASCO, Ark. — An Arkansas woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree domestic battery for shooting her former boyfriend 17 times during a November 2024 confrontation at a home in Drasco.
Rebecca Jane Mryglod, 38, received the prison term after the case that began with her arrest on Nov. 8, 2024. The Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office initially said she was being held in connection with suspected attempted first-degree homicide, first-degree domestic battery and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. The eventual plea resolved the case with a conviction for first-degree domestic battery.
Deputies were called to a home on Altom Road at about 7:15 a.m. on the morning of the shooting, according to the sheriff’s office. They found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and provided aid until emergency medical workers arrived. The victim was then flown by helicopter to a hospital for further treatment. Authorities identified Mryglod, then 37, as his live-in girlfriend and took her into custody.
The victim survived despite being shot repeatedly. People reported that court records showed he required extensive medical treatment and surgeries after the attack. One bullet injured his colon and complications included an infection, according to the report. Authorities have not publicly identified him in the material reviewed for this report.
People reported that records in the case said Mryglod admitted shooting the man. The report said investigators determined she had purchased the gun three days before the shooting and had practiced firing it before the attack. The shooting happened after she had sent her daughter to school that morning, according to the records cited by People.
The report also described statements attributed to Mryglod about helping the man deal with what she called spiritual problems. According to People, she told investigators she had moved back in with him in part to help him but had grown tired of dealing with what she described as his “spiritual demons.” Those statements were part of the account presented in records associated with the criminal case and do not independently establish a medical or psychological condition.
When deputies first announced the arrest in 2024, the sheriff’s office said formal charges had not yet been filed and emphasized that the investigation was continuing. Jail records later listed allegations including first-degree domestic battery, a homicide-related count and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. Her bond was listed at $700,000.
The 20-year sentence follows Mryglod’s guilty plea to first-degree domestic battery, rather than a trial on the more serious allegation initially associated with her arrest. People reported that Mryglod had already spent 648 days in custody by the time she was sentenced.
The sentence brings the central criminal case stemming from the November 2024 shooting to a resolution through the guilty plea. No additional sentencing proceedings or further charges connected to the shooting were confirmed in the sources reviewed.