Pa. police: Ex-trooper kills wife, self in market

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Pa. police: Ex-trooper kills wife, self in market
By MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press | March 28, 2013 | Updated: March 28, 2013 2:54pm

A former state trooper killed his estranged wife with a shotgun inside a central Pennsylvania supermarket Thursday and then killed himself, days after she filed for divorce and two months after he was accused of beating her, police said.

Mark A. Miscavish, who retired from the state police in 2011 after 15 years, killed Traci Miscavish at around 10 a.m. at the County Market in Philipsburg where she worked, authorities said. Police also spelled her first name Tracie.

He was arrested Jan. 23 after Traci Miscavish, who had recently left him, returned to the home to retrieve some belongings, Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller said.

Traci Miscavish believed her husband had been abusing prescription drugs and when she went to take them away, he wrestled her to the ground, pinned her arms behind her and attempted to bind her with duct tape, said Parks Miller, whose office was prosecuting him.


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[redqueen]

1. That poor woman.

Parks Miller said Traci Miscavish lived in fear of her 51-year-old estranged husband and told prosecutors she believed he would harm her further.

"She said, 'The next time I see him is going to be at the end of a gun,'" Parks Miller told The Associated Press. "We were very concerned when he got out and we're just devastated now."

... "It's like, how do you get out alive? When you've got kids and grandkids and friends and family, how do you split it and get away?"

[Sivafae]

2. For all those people that ask, "Why doesn't she just leave?"

This is why.

I can't help but feel heart broken every time I read the news and find yet another case of an abuser killing their spouse/partner.

[ellisonz]

3. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" - Wayne LaPierre

[In_The_Wind]

4. Damn!

[msanthrope]

5. Why the fuck weren't his guns taken from him? nt

[Aristus]

6. When are these assholes going to learn to start with themselves?

As Stephen King once wrote: "If you go out alone, you're a hero; Take someone with you, and you're dogshit."

[Ash_F]

7. "She said, 'The next time I see him is going to be at the end of a gun,'"

And law enforcement did nothing...