Jehovah's Witness shoots wife for "straying from the faith"

by truthseeker 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • truthseeker
    truthseeker

    Sick.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/361673p-307958c.html

    Jehovah's witness shoots wife A Bible-thumping Bronx man gunned down his estranged wife and then killed himself after accusing her of straying from their faith and sleeping with another man, police and neighbors said yesterday.

    The victim's 21-year-old daughter found the bloodbath at 10:30 a.m. yesterday in her mother's Soundview apartment after the woman failed to show up to work as an Avon sales representative, neighbors said.

    Sharoll Medina, 39, was sprawled on her bed with a gunshot wound to her head. Her estranged husband, Julio Lopez, 45, lay dead nearby with a revolver beside him, police said. "My mother! My mother!" her daughter screamed as she walked out of the Watson Ave. building.

    Lopez and Medina, both Jehovah's Witnesses, separated about 18 months ago. But Lopez would often show up unannounced at Medina's fifth-floor apartment, neighbors said.

    She routinely refused to let him inside, but rather than go away he would sleep in his truck. Their fighting got worse when Lopez found out Medina was dating another man - and he later argued with her about it, neighbors said.

  • blondie
    blondie

    This is the 3rd post on this. Must be a hot story.

  • pratt1
    pratt1

    I read this article this morning.

    Really very sad.

    I have a friend who lives in the Bronx and I'm sure that he knows this couple. I'll fill you guys in on more details later.

  • littlerockguy
    littlerockguy

    By their fruits you will recognize them....

  • undercover
    undercover

    It's a terrible, terrible tragedy and I feel for the family members who have to go through the aftermath.

    This didn't happen because these people were Jehovah's Witnesses, as some are bound to morbidly try to point out.

    It could have happened to any other couple in any religion. In fact, most times when you see a story like this, you don't see the religion mentioned. It gets mentioned now because people know that JWs are basically pacifists and don't use violence or own weapons.

    What it does indicate, though, is that being a Jehovah's Witness does not protect you from anything. JWs love to think that they are somehow protected from bad things like this because they have "Jehovah's protection". But it's a fallacy as this event points out.

  • ocsrf
    ocsrf
    This didn't happen because these people were Jehovah's Witnesses, as some are bound to morbidly try to point out.

    Agreed, on the flip side of this, JWs will gossip together and look for some kind of spiritual weakness, such as they did not do what they should of been doing; otherwise, this horrible thing would never of happened.

    OC

  • joelbear
    joelbear

    JW's are humans like everyone else, it just makes them feel better to say they are special.

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