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Father named as the shooter in murder-suicide of family
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/15/father-named-as-shooter-in-murder-suicide-family0.html ^

Posted on 08/16/2016 4:51:18 PM PDT by Phillyred

LEESPORT, Pa. – Authorities have named a Pennsylvania man as the shooter in a murder-suicide that left his family dead earlier this monthThe Berks County district attorney said Monday that 40-year-old Mark Short Sr. shot and killed his 33-year-old wife, Megan, and the couple's three children before turning the weapon on himself. The children — 8-year-old Lianna, 5-year-old Mark Jr. and 2-year-old Willow — were found dead alongside their parents Aug. 6 in the family's home in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. Authorities say the couple had been having "domestic issues." They found a handwritten murder-suicide note and a handgun near one of the adults. Neighbors say Megan Short had posted on social media before her death that she planned to leave her husband...

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1 posted on 08/16/2016 4:51:18 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

Pure Evil.

Damn Animal.


2 posted on 08/16/2016 4:58:03 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Phillyred

Selfish bastard. I hope the flames are licking up his backside as I type.

CC


3 posted on 08/16/2016 5:04:54 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Blue Jays

Very unfortunate turn of events for the unsuspecting victims.

4 posted on 08/16/2016 5:09:13 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: Phillyred

This is local for us.Many souls knew the family because they had a very sick child.Wonder if he was on drugs.The man who bought our house 15 years ago shot his 2 dogs and shot himself.He was on drugs.Wife had just left him because of drugs.


5 posted on 08/16/2016 5:16:04 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Phillyred

Honor killing?


6 posted on 08/16/2016 5:19:30 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Phillyred

What a beautiful family...such a shame! Defies understanding.


7 posted on 08/16/2016 5:29:55 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: lightman
she was feeling frisky and had threatened to leave for young stud.

You are a sick man

9 posted on 08/16/2016 5:35:12 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Phillyred

Coward.


10 posted on 08/16/2016 5:36:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: lightman

This should be familiar to you...

Once you were in darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.

Live as children of light-—for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Ephesians 5:8-11


11 posted on 08/16/2016 5:39:23 PM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: lightman

Stay classy maroon.....


12 posted on 08/16/2016 5:44:09 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: lightman

You are classless.


13 posted on 08/16/2016 5:49:32 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obamca loves America)
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To: Phillyred

Neighbors say Megan Short had posted on social media before her death that she planned to leave her husband...

_________________

Not the brightest thing to do when married to an angry unstable man.


14 posted on 08/16/2016 5:50:29 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Phillyred

I think the 2 year old had gotten a heart transplant. Truly a senseless waste of human life.


15 posted on 08/16/2016 6:31:58 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Phillyred

16 posted on 08/16/2016 7:20:32 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: jocon307

I heard that same report about the difficult surgery.


17 posted on 08/16/2016 7:56:17 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: fatima

It used to be “local” for me too, I lived in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania in the mid 60s. Peaceful little town.

I guess, not so much any more.


18 posted on 08/16/2016 9:29:04 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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