Topic: Domestic violence...

[knightfan26917]

I'm "angered/frustrated/saddened by domestic violence" is what I posted as a status on Facebook a day or so after I was told by a good friend of mine that another friend had been killed by her husband.  I've known Amy for ~12 years.  She had a heart of gold, and the world has lost a wonderful person.

This is yet another "senseless act" ... and, to me, another reminder of how fragile life is, how much we need to "stick together", and how much violence doesn't particularly solve anything, but just adds more pain to the situation....

http://www.indystar.com/article/20100325/NEWS02/3250494/Two-die-after-Grant-Co.-standoff

Two die after Grant Co. standoff
By Nick Wernerand Douglas Walker / Muncie Star Press
Posted: March 25, 2010

UPLAND, Ind. -- Police say an Upland man fatally shot his wife in her mother's home Thursday morning, then held police at bay for hours before shooting himself.
When members of an Indiana State Police SWAT team stormed the house about 5:30 p.m., they found Paul Bryon Nose II, 42, suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head.

He died as preparations were being made to fly him by medical helicopter to a Fort Wayne hospital.
Authorities also found the body of Nose's 39-year-old wife, Amy. Police believe she was killed by her husband shortly after 7 a.m., when callers to 911 reported hearing shots coming from the house.
Police were uncertain when Paul Nose shot himself, although his communication with authorities and text messages with family members ended about 1:30 p.m. He was found in a hallway, while his wife's body was found in a bathroom.
Upland police arrived at the house soon after receiving the reports of shots fired, but were "unsuccessful" in establishing "personal contact" with any occupants, according to an Indiana State Police press release.
Grant County sheriff's deputies and state police also came to the scene. Eventually officers "made verbal communication" with Paul Nose, the release said, but they were unable to persuade him to surrender.
State police are leading the investigation of the shootings. No shots were fired by officers as they entered the home, ISP Sgt. Rod Russell said.
Authorities said the domestic problems between the couple had been ongoing for several weeks, with Amy Nose spending some time in a women's shelter. She filed for divorce on Feb. 11; that case was still pending in Grant Superior Court at the time of her death.
On Wednesday night, Amy Nose filed a police report that alleged some act of intimidation by her husband.
Amy Nove had been granted a protective order when she filed the divorce suit last month, but the pair had mutual contact recently and might have been trying to reconcile their differences, authorities said.
Married for 20 years, they were the parents of two daughters.

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"I don't want to take this life for granted" ... Keith Urban ... 'Somebody Like You'

[Otto Puzzell]

As I enter the last third of my expected lifespan, stuck in the suburbs of one of the "10 most dangerous cities in the world", where people kill infants in their rage to establish just who is the source for drugs, gun down families in turf wars over territory no sane person would give a rat's ass for, etc., the numbing inhumanity of mankind weights heavier upon my with each passing day.

I'm saddened by your loss, Cort, and will add you and your departed friend to my prayers.

[MG]

Copy that, Otto.

Mankind is civilized? In what way, precisely?   

I think the scientific name for our species - homo sapiens - is a gross misnomer. It should be homo dumbassius.     

[Paul Jaray]

Spes ultima dea.

[knightfan26917]

*nods*

Thank you.


Some things in life just do not make sense.....

Mankind is civilized? In what way, precisely?

I'd like to know this, too....

*sighs*



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"Your chance has come and gone" ... JoJo ... 'Too Little Too Late'

[Bezor]

Sad.

I see it everyday.  It is always tough when someone close to us passes away, the pain is that much more great in circumstances as these.  Very sad.

[Ultra]

Tragic.