Cops: Wife got in parting shot before killing

BostonHerald.com ^ | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 | O’Ryan Johnson

[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.

[SuziQ]

No need to smuggle. If you can get a license, you can buy a gun.

[Realman30]

Guess he got the last word, or last shot, this time.

[Abathar]

If she’s willing to stare down the barrel of a gun to get the last dig in him it’s probably the first time in 40 years...

[longtermmemmory]

this makes you wonder what pushed the husband to do something so horrible.

[B4Ranch]

>>Taxes must be a real b*tch there if they couldn’t live off of that check each month with no house payment.<<

She probably was determined to keep up with the Jones so he canceled her credit cards with one shot.

[PoloSec]

I suspect the first shot was just a warning; when that didn’t work...well....

[Slings and Arrows]

> > BFL

> Bacon Free Library?

Barry F***ed Libya.

[Daffynition]

Never leave home without your 51 Piece Multi-Pack Pork Kit

[TheOldLady]

Dang. In what kind of fresh “L” was that guy living? Someone that old probably had a notion of the value of life and the perfidy of murder.

Hubby and I prove every day how much we love and respect each other.

Yes, we argue, but we usually joke-escalate until we’re both laughing so hard we have to hold each other up.

[paulycy]

You can send me a couple of those. Just in case.

[Slings and Arrows]

I like your way better.

[Slings and Arrows]

Something about that pic’s not kosher.

[TheOldLady]

Yeah, and we’re both still alive.

[Daffynition]

In case of what?

[Daffynition]

Howz 'bout organic, then?

[Slings and Arrows]

I always wondered what those things looked like on-the-hoof.

[Daffynition]

Where's Laz when ya need 'im?

[Clay Moore]

It is never too early to start shopping for Christmas gifts!

[Daffynition]

May all your Christmas shopping dilemmas be brief. All Hail BACON!