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Man Who Killed Wife Bought Shotgun From Wal-Mart Hours Earlier
WFTV-TV Orlando ^ | 02/27/2008 | WFTV

Posted on 02/28/2008 2:40:27 PM PST by VeniVidiVici

MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- A Marion County man who opened fire on his wife bought the shotgun used in the crime just hours earlier at a nearby Wal-Mart. He didn't have to wait to get the gun. He passed a mandatory background check in the store and walked right out with it.

The man then went back into the store and bought some shotgun shells. Detectives said he then went home and murdered his wife.

Cheryl Schleher heard a knock at the door Monday night around 11 o'clock. It was her neighbor, Johnny High.

"My husband went out there and he asked my husband if he had a shotgun," she said.

High left Schleher's home empty-handed. Tuesday morning, deputies said he came to the Wal-Mart on State Road 200. He bought a shotgun, some shells and took them home, where he opened fire on his wife, Kimberly.

"We have witnesses that actually watched her run from the house and watched him chasing after her and he shot her in the yard [in the back]," said Sgt. Brian Spivey, Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Kimberly High died in her backyard. Deputies said her husband then went inside their trailer home and shot himself in the chest. The first officers on the scene said High was still conscious when they got there and he confessed.

Schleher said the couple was getting a divorce. She said Johnny looked liked he had been crying the night he came to her house. She didn't know what he was about to do. Just the same, she wishes she had warned Kimberly.

"When my husband told, told me, I said, 'We need to tell Kimmy, though. I don't know. She was a good friend," she said.

The sheriff's office said Johnny High is in critical condition at Orlando Regional Medical Center. The Highs have two children, four and seven years old. They were not home when their mother was killed. They are now with their grandparents.

In Florida, there is a three-day waiting period for handguns, but there is no waiting period for long guns. In addition, background checks are only required at federally-licensed gun stores. People buying firearms at gun shows and person to person are not subject to background checks.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; domesticviolence; florida; gun; killed; shotgun
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To: exit82

So, if he didn’t get a gun, he would have bought a knife.

Or a screwdriver.

Or a nailgun.

Or a shovel.

Or a brick.

Or run her over with his car.

The gun did not kill the woman. The man operating the gun killed her.

You are CORRECT....


21 posted on 02/28/2008 3:03:45 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: djf

“I guess if the only tool you have is a twelve gauge, everything looks like a woodchuck!”

since I use the “hammer and nail” one a lot, I thought this was quite funny.


22 posted on 02/28/2008 3:06:29 PM PST by stompk
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To: VeniVidiVici
"My husband went out there and he asked my husband if he had a shotgun," she said. High left Schleher's home empty-handed.

ummmm,wait a minute here.....ummmmm.....hmmmm...wait a minute,I think I'm coming up with a comment....hmmmm....nope,can't figger it oot.

23 posted on 02/28/2008 3:08:37 PM PST by Minnesoootan (CHANGE: That's all tax payers will be left with.)
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To: Graybeard58

LOL


24 posted on 02/28/2008 3:09:18 PM PST by boomop1
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To: VeniVidiVici
Yes 256 votes 48%
No 282 votes 52%

Funny how shootings and polls to ban/restrict gun ownership proliferate around election time.

25 posted on 02/28/2008 3:11:28 PM PST by JOAT
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To: beaversmom

Some of us on the right are not so keen on Wal Mart either.


26 posted on 02/28/2008 3:12:23 PM PST by PeterFinn (I am not voting for McCain. No way, no how.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Right.. nut case uses gun to kill, so all Americans should have their gun rights removed. Nut case pours gasoline over someone and sets them on fire, so all Americans should be banned from purchasing gas. Makes sense
27 posted on 02/28/2008 3:12:38 PM PST by Integrityrocks
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To: beaversmom
Ah gee, guns and Wal-Mart—two of the left’s favorites to demonize.

And he probably drove an SUV with Exxon-Mobil gas in it to the store and back.

28 posted on 02/28/2008 3:12:48 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: exit82

And bath tubs. Drew Peterson’s third wife was killed in/with a bath tub.


29 posted on 02/28/2008 3:13:25 PM PST by Hoffer Rand
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To: exit82
So, if he didn’t get a gun, he would have bought a knife.

He was going to kill her, one way or the others. He wanted her dead, and the method didn't matter.

30 posted on 02/28/2008 3:15:08 PM PST by xJones
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To: boomop1

don’t even think about it darling because I have already left notes to all my friends about what guns you have and if I am found dead and you aren’t around well....watch out darling...but I know you love me and you wouldn’t do anything like that now would you??? ha ha..


31 posted on 02/28/2008 3:16:22 PM PST by MsBoomop1 (WWJD)
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To: VeniVidiVici

As the Meathead said to Archie,”Guns are the number one cause of murder in this country!” and Archie replies to the Meathead,”Would you rather they be shoved out a window instead?”


32 posted on 02/28/2008 3:18:25 PM PST by LetsRok
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To: Resolute Conservative

When I wrote a thesis on hand gun control, I found an article from Scotland where the doctors there were calling for a ban on kitchen knives, because that is the most popular form of attack due to there being no hand guns.


33 posted on 02/28/2008 3:20:19 PM PST by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: VeniVidiVici
It's a good thing the neighbor didn't have a shotgun to lend to the nut case husband. He might well have been made an accessory to 1st degree murder.

We have over 300 million people in the U.S. Even a tiny percentage of nut cases in a population that large is going to have plenty of bad news every day.

34 posted on 02/28/2008 3:20:59 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: boomop1
I love Wal-mart, but I have enough guns, my wife is well behaved, oops she reads all my posts..

She does? Really? You're not the sharpest blade in the........

Well, I know your wife will be overjoyed to know how much you have always praised and bragged about her. What a sweetheart, what a darling. Every man should be so lucky as you!

You owe me your soul now.

35 posted on 02/28/2008 3:21:55 PM PST by xJones
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To: VeniVidiVici

Walmart does kill, he went there because buying the gun was “for less”.


36 posted on 02/28/2008 3:22:16 PM PST by Eye of Unk
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To: VeniVidiVici

Wal-Mart better watch out for the lawyers...


37 posted on 02/28/2008 3:23:11 PM PST by yield 2 the right
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To: xJones

You got that right, she already caught me.


38 posted on 02/28/2008 3:24:23 PM PST by boomop1
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To: VeniVidiVici

they pulled the poll


39 posted on 02/28/2008 3:25:12 PM PST by Tigercap (McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
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To: xJones

See post 31.


40 posted on 02/28/2008 3:27:06 PM PST by boomop1
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