Paul Gilkey goes on murder-suicide spree over cancer-stricken wife's meal

**crimsonsorrow** · January 10th, 2012, 05:55 PM

LOGAN, Ohio—A dispute over whether a terminally ill woman should have been given tea and toast or an orange apparently upset her husband so much that he shot and killed two of the woman's sisters and his own son before killing himself, a sheriff said Tuesday.

The sick woman, Darlene Gilkey, witnessed the shootings from a hospital bed in her living room but wasn't hurt, Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North said. The 59-year-old is dying of cancer, he said.
The woman's son, Ralph Sowers III, told a 911 dispatcher he survived because his stepfather, Paul Gilkey, said he was sparing him because he had kids

After the shootings Monday, 63-year-old Paul Gilkey stepped out onto his front porch, sat down in a chair and shot himself to death, the sheriff said.

What a horrific scene for the survivors, especially the wife </3

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_19709898

**kniption** · January 10th, 2012, 06:22 PM

dayum.

**badfish76** · January 10th, 2012, 06:48 PM

Way to make her last days as easy as possible.

Way to go, shit bag.

**Chinchillazilla** · January 10th, 2012, 07:57 PM

Well, I hope she wasn't planning to reunite with him in heaven.

**Valasca** · January 10th, 2012, 08:42 PM

THis is a common occurance in Ohio.

**sheevaa** · January 10th, 2012, 10:48 PM

*jaw drops* um..can we say overreaction?

**kniption** · January 15th, 2012, 10:41 PM

she didn't last very long. not surprisingly...

Ohio woman who witnessed husband's murder-suicide dies

LOGAN, Ohio (AP) – A terminally ill woman has died days after her husband fatally shot their adult son and her two sisters in front of her at a southeastern Ohio home and then killed himself.

Authorities said the shootings last Monday in rural Logan apparently stemmed from family tensions over the care of the cancer-stricken woman, 59-year-old Darlene Gilkey. She was not hurt in the shootings and was taken to a medical facility afterward.

Her daughter-in-law, Heather Sowers, said Gilkey died Saturday, hours before the funeral for her 38-year-old son, Leroy Gilkey of Columbus.

Another son, Ralph Sowers III, told 911 dispatchers that he witnessed the shootings by his stepfather, Paul "David" Gilkey, who was found dead on a porch. Sowers said his stepfather let him leave the scene because he has children.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ide/52584916/1

**Whisper** · January 16th, 2012, 10:52 PM

Terminally Ill Ohioan Darlene Gilkey Dies On Day Of Son's Funeral: Saw Husband Shoot Relatives

LOGAN, Ohio — A terminally ill woman has died days after her husband fatally shot their adult son and her two sisters in front of her at a southeastern Ohio home and then killed himself.

Authorities said the shootings last Monday in rural Logan apparently stemmed from family tensions over the care of the cancer-stricken woman, 59-year-old Darlene Gilkey. She was not hurt in the shootings and was taken to a medical facility afterward.

Her daughter-in-law, Heather Sowers, said Gilkey died Saturday, hours before the funeral for her 38-year-old son, Leroy Gilkey of Columbus.

Another son, Ralph Sowers III, told 911 dispatchers that he witnessed the shootings by his stepfather, Paul "David" Gilkey, who was found dead on a porch.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...html?ref=crime

Paul Gilkey was shot and killed by his father inside his mother Darlene Gilkey's hospital room.