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Cops: Pennsylvania man killed ex-lover with homemade air gun
Associated Press ^ | Apr 6, 2017 5:25 PM EDT

Posted on 04/07/2017 4:47:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A Pennsylvania man used a homemade, high-pressure air gun to fatally shoot a neighbor with whom he had an affair, a prosecutor and police said.

Josef Raszler, 35, was charged Wednesday with criminal homicide in the Sept. 13 shooting of 46-year-old Stephanie Roof. She was shot with a homemade metal projectile about 1 a.m. in the driveway of her home across the street from Raszler’s in Lower Macungie Township.

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said investigators haven’t found the weapon Raszler allegedly used, but they have evidence he researched making it and practiced with it at his parents’ lake house days before Roof’s killing. A county detective even made such a gun using materials and information that correspond to the online research Raszler allegedly did, and that device was displayed Wednesday at Martin’s news conference announcing the charges. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: airgun; allentown; banglist; lowermacungietwp; murder

1 posted on 04/07/2017 4:47:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It is the similar projectiles found at his parent’s place and used to kill the woman that are damning.

That is the problem with unique designs such as this.

Note that they are relyiing heavily on his Internet records.


2 posted on 04/07/2017 4:53:15 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Olog-hai

It sounds like a nail gun with a barrel.

An Einstein he is not.


3 posted on 04/07/2017 5:14:18 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Olog-hai
He could have used something that left no evidence behind.


4 posted on 04/07/2017 5:22:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Olog-hai

Time to support Homemade Air Gun Control. /s


5 posted on 04/07/2017 6:07:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
They need to ban air.

6 posted on 04/07/2017 6:28:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

An ice projectile would have left no evidence...


7 posted on 04/07/2017 6:30:31 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Olog-hai

Sherlock Holmes had one fear. Airguns.

Colonel Moran tried to assassinate him with one.


8 posted on 04/07/2017 6:30:58 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

“You fiend. You clever, clever, fiend.”


9 posted on 04/07/2017 6:42:35 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump)
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To: Olog-hai

No reason at all for the murder but she sounded like an easy ...............


10 posted on 04/07/2017 7:02:10 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Olog-hai

Ahhh play the devil’s game and receive the devil’s rewards. This moron can enjoy his ‘satisfaction of revenge’ in a jail cell and a guilty conscience if he has one.


11 posted on 04/07/2017 7:10:20 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny (agent Able Deplor))
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