Sad news. Meleanie Hain [shefearsnothing] was killed tonight

[HiredGoon]

Originally Posted by renegadephoenix

Dagny on here is a Probation Officer and she carries/was issued a Glock 23

In PA, isn't there a difference between a Probation Officer and a Parole Officer?

[normanvin]

Originally Posted by ReconLdr

Meleanie told me Scott was issued a Glock 19. This was the reason she switched to a Glock. I can't remember what she had before that though.

Wasn't it a Taurus something or other. I believe she named it.

[anonymouse]

I wonder if the friend was a member here?

[Warpt762x39]

Originally Posted by xotech

May God bless her children.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind...anie_hain.html

Meleanie Hain shooting was witnessed on Web cam, police say

By JANET PICKEL, The Patriot-News
October 09, 2009, 2:29PM

Gun owner Meleanie Hain, in front of her house in Lebanon in December.Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter’s soccer game, was talking to a friend via a Web camera when her husband, Scott, shot her to death before killing himself, Lebanon police said today.

hain_house.jpgView full sizeDan Gleiter, The Patriot-NewsGun-carrying soccer mom Meleanie Hain died with her husband, Scott, in what police are calling a murder-suicide. Hain, 31, and her husband, Scott, 33, were pronounced dead by Lebanon County Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum shortly after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in this home at Second Avenue and East Grant Street, Lebanon, police said.Meleanie Hain, 31,and her husband, Scott, 33, were pronounced dead by Lebanon County Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum shortly after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at their home at Second Avenue and East Grant Street, Lebanon, police said.

At a press conference today, Lebanon police said Meleanie Hain was in the kitchen on the first floor of the home and communicating with a friend of hers and Scott's when Scott Hain fired six shots from a 9mm handgun registered to him. Scott Hain then went to the second floor of the home and shot and killed himself with a shotgun, police said.

Police said the friend had turned away from the computer during the conversation but turned back to the screen when he heard a shot and a scream. The friend did not see Meleanie Hain shot, but did see Scott Hain fire a gun where Meleanie had been sitting and called 911, police said. Police did not identify the friend or further categorize his relationship to Meleanie Hain.

Police have served a search warrant and seized the friend's computer.

Police took several handguns, a shot gun, two rifles and several hundred rounds of ammunition from the Hains' home. Meleanie Hain's handgun was found fully loaded and in a backpack near the front door of the home, police said.

The couple's three children were home at the time of the shooting but were not hurt. Police did not say whether any of them witnessed the shootings.

Meleanie Hain’s mother, Jenny Stanley, told WGAL-TV that the children, ages 2, 6 and 10, were “hanging in there.” “I’m devastated,” Stanley said. “I lost my daughter. I lost my best friend. The children lost their parents.”

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Jesus.......

[King 5.45]

Originally Posted by anonymouse

I wonder if the friend was a member here?

That's something that might never be known, and probably better that way.

[dc dalton]

Originally Posted by R.Thompson

Update on PennLive

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/meleanie_hain.html

Oh god, now I feel just freaking horrible (more so than before) ... I mean if there was an argument there is "some" thinking that something like this could happen with someone like him but she is just talking to someone on a web cam and he unloads 6 rounds into her.

For the love of god .... man I have to say this just breaks my heart even more. She didn't deserve this, the kids didn't deserve it .. there was NO GOD DAMNED REASON FOR THIS!

Can't even begin to say how I feel right about now, a thousand times worse than hearing the first news for some reason.

[Neo31rex31]

Originally Posted by anonymouse

I wonder if the friend was a member here?

Probably something thats better off unknown....

[son of the revolution]

So now it appears we know that Scott ambushed her and she never had a chance. I cant bring myself to register at PennLive and counter the vile things people are saying about Meleanie, but its infuriating and revolting to see moronic idiots claim she was mentally ill , " trash " and got what she deserved . Im willing to bet these morons would never have the spine to say these things face to face to anyone rant over / sorry

[LittleRedToyota]

Originally Posted by exceltoexcel

Maybe put LEO (parole officer).

personally, i would skip the LEO part and just say "parole officer".

this issue already derailed at least one thread on the topic (on glocktalk).

police officers feel they are being lumped in with (and bashed with) scott hain.

but, pointing out that he was issued a firearm by the government is, imho, very legitimate and important. i just wouldn't want to see that important fact get obscured by arguments about cop-bashing and whether or not he really was an "LEO".

but, ymmv, of course.

[King 5.45]

Originally Posted by HiredGoon

In PA, isn't there a difference between a Probation Officer and a Parole Officer?

Probation is defined in general terms as an alternative to sentencing. Parole is the conversion of time remaining inside on a state sentence into a supervised sentence on the outside. The word "parole" comes from the French for "word," as in literally giving one's word to behave as dictated under terms of release.