LEBANON, Pa. — A soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her husband in a shooting witnessed online by her video chat partner, authorities said Friday.
Scott Hain used his own gun to fire several shots into his 30-year-old wife, Meleanie, while her video chat was active and perhaps as she washed dishes in their kitchen, police said. Scott Hain, 33, later killed himself in an upstairs bedroom.
The couple’s three young children, ages 2, 6, and 10, were home just before the murder-suicide, but authorities stopped short of saying they were home at the time. The online friend heard a shot and screams and turned to see Scott Hain firing, they said.
The man, who was described as a friend of both Scott and Meleanie Hain, called 911.
Meleanie Hain became a voice of the gun-rights movement last year when she fought for the right to carry a holstered pistol at her daughter’s soccer games. Other parents complained, prompting a sheriff to revoke her concealed- weapons permit, a decision a judge later overturned.
