Florida woman accused of killing boyfriend claims she had a ‘gap in memory’ as she woke up to his bloody body in her arms

A Florida woman arrested for shooting her boyfriend to death over the weekend claimed to have a memory lapse and awoke to find herself holding his blood-soaked body in her arms early in the morning.

Brittany Holbrook, 33, allegedly shot and killed her 30-year-old boyfriend Tyler Nulisch in the Key West home they shared with a roommate following an argument early Saturday morning, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies arrived to the home on Big Coppitt Key at about 2:45 a.m. and found Nulisch with a gunshot wound to his back. They recovered a 9mm handgun and bullet casing nearby.

He was rushed to Lower Keys Medical Center on Stock Island, but could not be saved.

He died in the hospital about an hour after the sheriff’s office received the emergency call.

Holbrook told deputies “there was a gap in her memory.”

She said she remembered going to bed with her boyfriend and the next thing she was able to recall was holding him after he was shot, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News.

The couple’s roommate, Jordan Kinn, however, had clear recollection of what he witnessed.

Kinn was the one who made the 911 call and told the operator that Nulisch was in “bad shape” and bleeding profusely, the affidavit states.

He told deputies that he was awoken by the couple’s arguing and ran into the living room after hearing Holbrook scream.

There he found Nulisch in a puddle of blood, according to the affidavit.

“That b—h shot me in the back,” Nulisch reportedly told Kinn as Holbrook stood by silently.

Holbrook was reportedly holding a blood-drenched Nulisch on the living room floor when deputies showed up.

After first telling investigators she didn’t remember what happened, she later said she believed her boyfriend was going to kill her — but still denied firing the gun that killed him, according to the document.

Holbrook claimed that Nulisch got out of bed to use the bathroom and when he returned, “he was like a different person and began to attack her,” investigators said.

She said Nulisch held her against the wall and choked her with his hands “hard enough that it restricted her breathing.”

Deputies, however, noted in their report that she showed no signs of strangulation.

They said she had no marks on her throat or broken blood vessels in the whites of her eyes.

Holbrook was charged with one count of felony murder and was held on $750,000 bond, according to the sheriff’s office.