Ohio Murder-Suicide: Man Shoots Estranged Wife Multiple Times Before Killing Self

A man shot his estranged wife multiple times before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide incident in Ohio.

A domestic dispute between a 53-year-old woman and her estranged 49-year-old husband led to the man shooting his wife Friday, the Akron Police said. The authorities had reached the scene after receiving multiple calls about a shooting at a home in Morgan Avenue.

Deputies found the man and woman outside their house with apparent gunshot wounds. The man was pronounced dead at the scene while the woman was rushed to Summa Akron City Hospital, where she later succumbed to injuries.

The Summit County Medical Examiner identified the victims Monday as Lisa and Kenneth Mathis, Akron Beacon Journal reported.

Other details about the incident are yet to be revealed and an investigation is underway.

In another recent murder-suicide incident, a teenager found his parents dead at their home in Texas. Authorities said the man shot his wife before killing himself following a domestic dispute between the two.

The couple's 16-year-old son had called 911 to inform the authorities about the incident, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez had said at the time. The bodies of the victims were found in the basement of the home.

“It’s still preliminary that he, the father, may have sent some message right prior to the shooting to the son, just, basically, advising him, ‘Take care of,’ you know, ‘your brother,’ or something, just a general message like that, and that’s when everything went down,” Gonzalez said, adding the couple was having marital issues for a while.

“With the increase in murders that we’ve had this year, the biggest category has been as a result of domestic violence,” Gonzalez told Click2Houston.

In another such case, a woman fatally shot her husband and their special needs son before killing herself. Authorities said evidence collected from the home suggested the woman had been planning to kill her family. The bodies of the victims were found after someone reported about a foul smell coming from the home.