Article: Ghastly: Another wife-killing

TIME AFTER time, we print the same news report: A raging man, maddened by a breakup with his wife or girlfriend, shoots her to death, then shoots himself.

It happens so regularly that it's a standard news item, like fires and wrecks. Sometimes the murderous male also kills their children, or in-laws, or any companion who happens to be with his ex-mate.

It's totally irrational, making no sense that others can grasp. What is gained by blind rage ending in one's own death? Tuesday's double-shooting at an Elkins day-care center parking lot fit the horrible pattern. Michelle Lindsay, 26, had just dropped off her 7-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter when she was killed by two bullets in the ...

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