Was the gun-toting soccer mom responsible for death of husband?”
LEBANON, Pa. — A mother of three who gained national notoriety after she openly carried a loaded handgun to her daughter’s soccer game was shot dead along with her husband in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide. Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain 33, were pronounced dead shortly after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at their 1 1/2-story brick home in Lebanon, a small city about 80 miles west of Philadelphia. The couple’s three children — a 10-year-old boy and girls aged 2 and 6 — were home at the time but weren’t hurt, police said. They were taken to stay with friends and relatives. Some neighbors told the Lebanon Daily News they heard or saw the children running from the house and screaming “Daddy shot Mommy!” shortly before the 911 emergency center was alerted at 6:20 p.m. Debbie Mise, who lives nearby, said she heard a strange sound following by the screams of the children. “I heard something heavy drop or fall, and then right away I heard the kids screaming, but I thought they were
Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter’s soccer game, was shot to death Wednesday night with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Hain, 31, and her husband, Scott, 33, were pronounced dead by Lebanon County Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum shortly after 8:30 p.m. at their home at Second Avenue and East Grant Street, police said. The couple’s three children were home at the time and were not injured, and are staying with relatives and friends, police said. Autopsies were scheduled for Thursday, police said. No other details were available at press time. Neighbor Mark Long said Meleanie baby-sat his 3-year-old son and that she and Scott had been having marital problems for the last week. Scott left on Tuesday and Meleanie did not know where he went, but he came back Wednesday, Long said. Meleanie Hain was thrust into the national spotlight when she took a gun, in plain view and holstered on her hi
