Gun-toting soccer mom found dead

LEBANON, Pa. – A suburban mother who fought in court for the right to openly carry a loaded handgun at her daughter’s youth soccer game was fatally shot Wednesday along with her parole-officer husband in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, authorities said.

Police released scant details about the deaths of Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, but said more information would be released today after their autopsies.

“I’m devastated. I lost my daughter. I lost my best friend. The children lost their parents,” Jenny Stanley, Meleanie Hain’s mother, told WGAL-TV. Stanley added that the three children, ages 2, 6 and 10, are “hanging in there.”

The children were at a neighbor’s house by the time police arrived to answer 911 calls from neighbors, said Lebanon City police Chief Daniel Wright.

Neighbors said the children ran outside and said their father had shot their mother.

Wright said authorities recovered more than one weapon from the home and acknowledged reports that the couple might have been having marital difficulties.