In my small town, a white male just slaughtered his wife, his mother-in-law, and a 16 year old boy who was protecting his three sons from him. He also shot a cop four times, critically wounding him.
The wife was a friend of my wife. She was staying in a women's shelter run by a friend of ours.
I guess she left too soon...
I dealt with a lot of domestic violence cases on active duty. It was very frustrating to see almost every woman who was a victim of domestic violence would refuse to press charges and would return to their abuser.
That is all too often a fatal mistake.