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Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:46 AM Nov 2017

Woman slain by ex after she found tracking device on her car

A 21-year-old Clearfield County, PA, woman had told authorities that her ex-boyfriend threatened her and installed a tracking device on her car in the weeks before he apparently killed her and her mother the day after Thanksgiving.

Court records obtained Tuesday show that Victoria Schultz talked to police and testified in court that she had feared Cody Bush might harm her. The records also say that at one point he threatened to blow up her car and sent text messages to her and his mother threatening to kill himself.

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Last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, state police issued a news release that they had charged an unidentified 26-year-old man — presumably Bush — who went to Schultz's address and threatened harm to an unidentified "victim and her family."
But no charges were filed, according to court officials, and Bush remained free.

On Friday morning, Bush went to Schultz's house in Osceola Mills, about 90 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, and fatally shot Schultz and her mother, Beth Schultz, before fleeing and killing himself a short while later, according to authorities.

Cody also shot Schultz's older sister, Jessica, 25, who was hospitalized, police said. Police did not say where Bush got the firearm, or respond to questions about last Wednesday's threats.

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https://www.indianagazette.com/news/woman-slain-by-ex-after-she-found-tracking-device-on/article_ea326a80-08db-53db-a23c-ae6dcb7c9ae5.html

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Woman slain by ex after she found tracking device on her car (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Nov 2017 OP
How many women are killed by family members, ex's, friends? Merlot Nov 2017 #1
We don't take domestic abuse seriously enough in this country. CrispyQ Nov 2017 #2

CrispyQ

(38,266 posts)
2. We don't take domestic abuse seriously enough in this country.
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 11:03 AM
Nov 2017
http://fortune.com/2017/11/07/domestic-violence-shootings-statistics/

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1. The majority of mass shooters in the U.S. killed their intimate partners or family members.

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, mass shooters killed a partner or family member in 54% of shootings—which are defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed by guns. Between January 2009 and December 2016, 422 people were killed in domestic violence disputes; more than 40% of these people were children.


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