Associated PressLEBANON, Pa. - A soccer mom who grabbed headlines by packing a pistol at her daughter's sporting events was killed by her husband in a shooting witnessed online by her video chat partner, cops said Friday.
Scott Hain fired several shots into his 30-year-old wife, Meleanie, in their kitchen while her video chat was active, police said.
Scott Hain, 33, later killed himself in an upstairs bedroom.
Meleanie Hain's loaded pistol - with a bullet in the chamber - was in a backpack hanging from the front door.
The couple's t
hree young children were home just before the murder-suicide, but authorities stopped short of saying they were home at the time.The online friend heard a shot and screams and turned to see Scott Hain firing, they said. He "observed Scott Hain standing over where Meleanie was and discharging a handgun several times," Lebanon Police Chief Daniel Wright said.
The man, described as a friend of the Hains, called 911. The chat was apparently not recorded.
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