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Cops: Wife got in parting shot before killing
BostonHerald.com ^ | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 | O’Ryan Johnson

Posted on 03/29/2011 11:13:25 AM PDT by Abathar

With her final words before she was fatally shot, Elaine McCall needled her husband for missing with his first shot yesterday morning inside their Wakefield home, police said.

“ ‘You can’t even shoot,’ ” she said, according to her husband David McCall’s reported statements to police.

The 72-year-old husband was charged with murder after hitting his wife with the second shot from the top of the stairs, police said. His 69-year-old wife’s body crumpled to the floor near the front door, shot in the chest, police said. David McCall walked to the kitchen, called 911, and then tried to shoot himself, according to police, but he missed again, grazing his chest through his sweatshirt.

“The Glock is on the floor,” he told cops when they arrived, according to the report. “I shot my wife,” he told police.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone told reporters that when McCall dialed 911 he told a dispatcher there had been a “murder-suicide.”

“Apparently, he didn’t make good on the suicide,” Leone said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence; famouslastwords; napl
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To: Retired Greyhound

Been married now for almost 21 years, each and every night I still thank God when I go to sleep he introduced her to me.

I do feel sorry for couples like this, I don’t approve of divorces as a general rule but it sounds like this couple needed to take advantage of one a while ago.


21 posted on 03/29/2011 11:40:58 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: MissTed

bttt


22 posted on 03/29/2011 11:47:24 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: All

Is this the Onion?


23 posted on 03/29/2011 11:48:07 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Abathar

The late “Screamin’ Sam” Kinison, who died in 1992, once said, “I don’t condone wife beating....(yells) BUT I UNDERSTAND IT!”


24 posted on 03/29/2011 11:51:23 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (What this country needs is an enema.)
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To: DarthVader

“A 9-mm divorce.”


Gosh what ever happened to just throwing a little dog-a-poopie on their shoes?


25 posted on 03/29/2011 11:54:30 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: Abathar
..he was arraigned on first-degree murder and discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling..

possibly 2 life sentences. Gun laws are getting tough.
Will see which one the prosecutor can make stick, but his End is already determined.
26 posted on 03/29/2011 11:59:05 AM PDT by Koracan
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Satan: “been married three times?”...
“Want a job?”


27 posted on 03/29/2011 11:59:15 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: freedomlover

I know this is very very sad for the both of them.


28 posted on 03/29/2011 12:04:08 PM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Abathar

BFL


30 posted on 03/29/2011 12:25:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Abathar
‘You can’t even shoot,’ ” she said

Don't bring a mouth to a gun fight.

31 posted on 03/29/2011 12:27:43 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Bacon Free Library?


32 posted on 03/29/2011 12:29:33 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar
You can’t even shoot,’

I have a feeling that this comment did much to improve his accuracy.

Man, that wife was a ball buster to the end.

33 posted on 03/29/2011 12:37:02 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: SIDENET

This doesn’t quite warrant an entry into the Darwin Awards, but she should get a plaque with a “Thanks for Trying” on it.


34 posted on 03/29/2011 12:40:24 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: I still care
I guess she was dead on.

Dead right...

Dead on...

Dead wrong...

All of the above...

35 posted on 03/29/2011 12:43:22 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I knew what I was feeling, but what was I thinking!)
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To: SIDENET
Man, that wife was a ball buster to the end.

No kidding. You get a couple guys on the jury who've been around that block a few times, and they hear her final barb in the testimony, securing a conviction might not be a slam dunk.

36 posted on 03/29/2011 1:09:38 PM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: triumphant values

Well, he’s an old guy. Room and board for the rest of his life, I guess. Could be worse. They might let him go free.


37 posted on 03/29/2011 1:25:38 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: triumphant values

Well, he’s an old guy. Room and board for the rest of his life, I guess. Could be worse. They might let him go free.


38 posted on 03/29/2011 1:25:52 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Abathar
Only goes to show a man can take only so much b!tching before he loses his mind.

Hopefully he'll be executed for his crime...and perhaps then find peace.

39 posted on 03/29/2011 1:26:49 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner
Hopefully he'll be executed for his crime...and perhaps then find peace.

If he goes to Hell, his punishment will probably be spending eternity with her in a one room apartment.

40 posted on 03/29/2011 1:39:57 PM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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