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Jehovah’s Witness shoots wife, self

New York Daily News, USA
Nov. 2, 2005
Rich Schapiro and Alison Gendar
www.nydailynews.com

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Wednesday November 2, 2005

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.