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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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Note to self - If someone takes a shot at you, standing around insulting their aim is NOT going to help the situation...
1 posted on 03/29/2011 11:13:30 AM PDT by Abathar
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To: Abathar

Uh, I think there was more to this than just heckling.


2 posted on 03/29/2011 11:16:11 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Abathar

Mrs. Thane_Banquo wouldn’t have made a snarky remark like that if someone tried to shoot her. She would have been too busy returning a wall of .357 jhp. Gotta love a woman like that.


3 posted on 03/29/2011 11:18:38 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Mitt Romney: He's from Harvard, and he's here to help.)
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To: SatinDoll

I guarantee there was, but she is still an idiot for sticking around to get one last insult in instead of running out the door.


4 posted on 03/29/2011 11:18:40 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

She ridiculed her husband to the day she died. (Ahem)


5 posted on 03/29/2011 11:19:23 AM PDT by blam
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To: SatinDoll

This was a case of being dead right.


6 posted on 03/29/2011 11:20:08 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Abathar

A 9-mm divorce.


7 posted on 03/29/2011 11:22:10 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Abathar

I guess she got the last word in that dispute - sometimes it is better to just shut up.


8 posted on 03/29/2011 11:22:37 AM PDT by dainbramaged ( I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live-Socrates)
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To: Abathar

The weird thing is, she was right.

The article says after he tried to shoot himself after but missed.

I guess she was dead on.


9 posted on 03/29/2011 11:23:03 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Abathar

She won the battle.

He won the war.


10 posted on 03/29/2011 11:24:02 AM PDT by farmguy
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The 72-year-old husband was charged with murder after hitting his wife with the second shot from the top of the stairs,

When shooting up or down compensate less for bullet drop. :)

11 posted on 03/29/2011 11:24:54 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Lurker

Sorry, in the end, she was dead wrong. He did hit her.

Gunner


12 posted on 03/29/2011 11:27:53 AM PDT by weps4ret (Democrats + Liberal Stream Media = Blood Liable)
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To: farmguy

He said “Consider this a divorce!”


13 posted on 03/29/2011 11:28:05 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Abathar
Every wife I ever had needed to be shot at some (or several) point(s), yet I somehow managed to resist the urge.

This looks like it could be a 50-year argument resolved in an inappropiate manner.

Sad for all involved.

How does one smuggle a Glock into the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts anyway?

14 posted on 03/29/2011 11:29:54 AM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: dainbramaged

I guess he finally bagged the nag.


15 posted on 03/29/2011 11:30:51 AM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: SatinDoll

Sounds like they couldn’t pay their bills and took a reverse mortgage. No caregivers for either and struggling. This had to end up badly under the circumstances.


16 posted on 03/29/2011 11:31:00 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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No caregivers for either and struggling.

Well he's got a caregiver now.

17 posted on 03/29/2011 11:35:42 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Abathar

This story says a lot about the wife. She must have been an insufferable ball-breaker. The husband preferred prison or suicide to her nagging.


18 posted on 03/29/2011 11:35:55 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

The reverse mortgage was on a house worth half a million and was only 4 years into it. Taxes must be a real b*tch there if they couldn’t live off of that check each month with no house payment.


19 posted on 03/29/2011 11:36:32 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar
Don't heckle the shooter....

Got it!

20 posted on 03/29/2011 11:36:43 AM PDT by MissTed ( Since beginning the gin and tonic diet, I've already lost two days!)
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