### Gun-Toting Soccer Mom SHOT DEAD! <= American Gun MADNESS !! ###
� Reality Check� �
a.. Story Highlights
b.. Police: Meleanie Hain shot by husband, Scott, in Pennsylvania home
c.. He then shot himself to death, police said
d.. Friend heard gunshots over webcam, saw Scott Hain firing
e.. Meleanie Hain brought loaded gun to daughter's soccer game in 2008
(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania soccer mom was chatting with a friend via webcam
when she was shot to death by her husband, who then went upstairs and shot
himself, police said Friday.
Meleanie Hain, 31, made national headlines last year as the mother who
carried a loaded, holstered handgun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer
game.
She was found dead in her Lebanon, Pennsylvania, home along with her
husband, Scott Hain, 33, on Wednesday evening, Lebanon police said.
Hain was in her kitchen talking with a friend via webcam just before her
death, police said. Watch why Hain caused controversy �
The friend, who police will not name, was looking away from the computer
screen when he heard a shot and a scream, police said. He turned back to the
monitor, he told police, and no longer saw Meleanie Hain but instead saw
Scott Hain firing several rounds from a handgun toward where his wife had
been.
Police said that the woman's body had already fallen to the floor by the
time the friend turned back to the screen.
Scott Hain then went upstairs to a bedroom, where he shot himself in the
head with a 12-gauge shotgun, police said.
Meleanie Hain was shot several times with a 9 mm handgun, police said. Her
fully loaded 9 mm handgun was found in her backpack hanging on the back of
the front door.
The couple's three children were home at the time of the killings, police
Capt. Daniel Wright said. They were unharmed and took refuge at a neighbor's
house before police arrived, he said.
Investigators have confiscated the webcam and computer, but cannot review
what the friend says he saw because the online conversation was not
recorded.
The death of the couple came four months after Meleanie Hain told her
attorney she was separating from her husband, her attorney, Matthew B.
Weisberg, told CNN Thursday. However, police said the couple still appeared
to be living together.
Meleanie Hain drew media attention on September 11, 2008, when she carried a
Glock strapped to her belt to her daughter's soccer game.
Nine days later her permit to carry a gun was revoked by Lebanon County
Sheriff Michael DeLeo, who claimed she showed poor judgment by wearing the
weapon to a child's game. County Judge Robert Eby later reinstated the
permit.
