Man Makes Final Post On Facebook Before Killing His Wife Then Himself [PHOTO]

Right before fatally shooting his wife and immediately turning the gun on himself at a hospital, a New Hampshire man took to Facebook to explain his reason for what he says was a “double suicide.”

 

Early Tuesday, Mark Lavoie walked into his wife’s hospital room, shot her, then turned the gun on himself. When authorities responded to a call about gunshots in the hospital, they discovered both Lavoie, 50, and his wife Katherine, 49, dead. Just before the murder-suicide, Lavoie wrote a lengthy status update on Facebook explaining why he did what he did.

 

“I want to start off by saying this is going to be officially ruled a murder/suicide when in all actuality it is a double suicide,” Lavoie wrote. “My baby was trying to escape the bi-polar demons that have been swirling around in her brain since childhood and now because of my selfishness in dialing 911 she is experiencing the only thing she feared more than her illness…

 

 

 

 

 

life support on a respirator. (Even though I brought her living will, the doc said her wishes didn’t apply because depression isn’t a non-reversible state. I however did not see that stipulation.) I am more than happy to sacrifice my life to fix my doing and join her spirit in a happier place. I just wanted [to] let people know my thoughts as to why I am doing this, weather [sic] you can understand it or not.”