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I have to admit, I literally paused after I posted this URL. I thought to myself "is there anything to be gained from publicizing this futher, what is to be gained from what the media has described as a 'very public attack'"? And my answer to myself, which has popped into my mind before is "they shouldn't issue protection orders without the petitioner having already made contact with someone who can provide her/him with counseling and protection duriing the period immediately after the restrained party is served. That order does NOTHING to protect anyone it only allows the police to make an immediate arrest if the party violates the order. That oesn't help the victim though if the immediate reaction to having been served a restraining order is for the abuser to hunt down the victim and execute them.
I am so weary of this, there has to be a better way.
Police: Man shot and killed woman, then himself near Michaels store in Lacey
I am so weary of this, there has to be a better way.
Police: Man shot and killed woman, then himself near Michaels store in Lacey
LACEY, Wash. - Two people are dead in Lacey after an apparent murder-suicide in the parking lot of a strip mall on Sleater Kinney Road Southeast.
The area was very busy with shoppers, families, and kids Friday evening, when the shooting happened about a quarter before 6pm.
Witnesses say they first knew something was wrong when they heard shouting, and saw a woman running across the parking lot right in front of the Michael's arts and crafts store, and saw a man chasing her.
“He confronted her and the shouting match began,” said Cmdr. Joe Upton, with the Lacey Police Department.
“Her arms were up and she was telling him no, no, crying. He just still did it,” said Denise Watson, a witness.
“I heard four shots and I look out the window and there were two bodies lying on the ground,” said John Beatie, another witness.
Beatie said he had just dropped his wife off at Michael’s, and was sitting in his car. He heard a man and woman arguing.
“She turned and ran, she ran right in front of my car. He ran down on the other side of the cars and intercepted her. They were yelling, and right in front of me, he pulled this pistol,” Beatie said. “About that time, I ducked down,” he said.
That's when the man opened fire.
Lacey police the man is 50 years old, a resident of Lacey.
“The male then pulled out a pistol and shot her several times in the chest,” Upton said.
Then the man shot himself in the head and died in the parking lot.
Police say his victim was a 41-year-old woman, also from Lacey. She died at the hospital.
Police are still investigating their relationship, but officers on scene say she had a protection order against him.
The area was very busy with shoppers, families, and kids Friday evening, when the shooting happened about a quarter before 6pm.
Witnesses say they first knew something was wrong when they heard shouting, and saw a woman running across the parking lot right in front of the Michael's arts and crafts store, and saw a man chasing her.
“He confronted her and the shouting match began,” said Cmdr. Joe Upton, with the Lacey Police Department.
“Her arms were up and she was telling him no, no, crying. He just still did it,” said Denise Watson, a witness.
“I heard four shots and I look out the window and there were two bodies lying on the ground,” said John Beatie, another witness.
Beatie said he had just dropped his wife off at Michael’s, and was sitting in his car. He heard a man and woman arguing.
“She turned and ran, she ran right in front of my car. He ran down on the other side of the cars and intercepted her. They were yelling, and right in front of me, he pulled this pistol,” Beatie said. “About that time, I ducked down,” he said.
That's when the man opened fire.
Lacey police the man is 50 years old, a resident of Lacey.
“The male then pulled out a pistol and shot her several times in the chest,” Upton said.
Then the man shot himself in the head and died in the parking lot.
Police say his victim was a 41-year-old woman, also from Lacey. She died at the hospital.
Police are still investigating their relationship, but officers on scene say she had a protection order against him.
