Man Tries To Kill Wife, Self After Losing Job

[OhioChick]

Wife In Stable Condition

POSTED: 7:44 pm EST February 1, 2009
UPDATED: 1:54 pm EST February 2, 2009

SOLON, Ohio -- An argument over money led to an attempted murder-suicide Sunday in Solon, police said.

Solon police said they got a 911 call at about 1 p.m. from Valiet Johnson, 49, who said she had just been shot in the head by her husband at their home on Sedge Circle.

She was taken to Hillcrest Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. Police said she maintained consciousness throughout the incident.

Police found her husband, Albert Johnson Jr., 58, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Valiet said that the couple had been arguing throughout the day about family financial matters. He was very upset that he just lost his job, police said.

Police are investigating.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/18617219/detail.html

This is getting to be an everyday occurrence and all revolves around job loss. Sad.

[YOY]

1. When are they going to actually start shooting rich executives.

I mean someone has to be able to put it all together.

[4 t 4]

3. How sad for them

use to be poeple jumping off buildings in the 1930's now it's shootings says something about guns in this country doesn't it.

[yella_dawg]

7. I hear ya`

I much prefer bodies raining down on me to gunplay.

[kestrel91316]

4. Good question. And once it starts, it ain't gonna be pretty......

[Warpy]

2. My ex and I got caught in the massive unemployment

of 1974-1975. After the original freakout, we talked it over and decided since there wasn't a damned thing we could do about it, jobs being non existent at that point, we might as well treat it as a vacation as long as we could.

We ate a lot of beans, but we actually had a blast. Being in our 20s was a big part of it and being in a city that featured a lot of low cost or even free tourist stuff supplied the rest. We became tourists who could go home at night, the best way to do it.

We both found work before the crisis was over. He was called back and I fell into something when a random person asked me if I wanted a job.

Attitude and adaptability are the keys to getting through miserable times. People who aren't willing to roll with the punches, alter their lifestyles and cast aside any notion of being entitled to a certain income are just not going to do well.

Obviously, a job search is essential. However, days off from it are even more essential, vacation days to get yourself out of that desperate mindset and just fuck off for a while.

Not being able to do any of it will end you up on the front page of the newspaper and not in a good way.

[kestrel91316]

5. Be careful. We're not supposed to talk about "altering lifestyles"

around here, if you listen to the Poverty Police.

[Warpy]

6. I've been poor more than once, usually because of my

rotten health and ineligibility for health insurance. In some ways it's good I learned how to do it when I was young, by my gawd, I wish there had come a point when I could have left poverty behind forever.

I blame everybody who voted for Reagan and Stupid that I could not.

I blame Clinton for wimping out when he should have held NAFTA and GATT hostage to getting universal health insurance.

And now after only 2 1/2 years of being middle class, I'm facing it all over again.

Damn them. Damn the lot of them. I'm not 20 any more.