Paragraph three reads: “Braucci told police a
disagreement erupted Tuesday morning
over who
Shelly Lavoie had been calling on her cell phone. Shelly
Lavoie
told police that her husband,
wheelchair bound from injuries suffered in a
motor vehicle crash during his teenage years, had grown
increasingly
paranoid, and was taking anti-depressants.”
SSRI Stories
note: The Physicians Desk Reference states that one of the side-effects of
antidepressants, and this is not listed as rare, is
“paranoia”.
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/11/26/news/local/451726.txt
Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:16 AM EST
‘Man accused of shooting wife ‘snapped‘
BY
BRIGITTE
RUTHMAN
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
LITCHFIELD —
John Lavoie told a friend, “I shot
Shelly, I
snapped.”
The 53-year-old handicapped man who held
police
at bay for nearly 10 hours Tuesday
after shooting his wife in the thigh is
now
being held on $500,000 bond on first-degree
assault
charges.
According to the
warrant for his arrest, Lavoie, a native
of
Thomaston, told his friend Vincent Braucci Jr. during a late
afternoon
phone conversation Tuesday that he
didn’t mean to do it. Upset and
remorseful, he
still maintained his wife of 23 years was having
an
affair.
Braucci told police a
disagreement erupted Tuesday morning
over who
Shelly Lavoie had been calling on her cell phone. Shelly
Lavoie
told police that her husband,
wheelchair bound from injuries suffered in a
motor vehicle crash during his teenage years, had grown
increasingly
paranoid, and was taking
anti-depressants.
According to the warrant, at 10:25 a.m. Lavoie
grabbed a long rifle or shotgun, slipped at
least one round in the chamber, and went after his wife. The
couple
struggled — although he is unable to
use his legs, Lavoie’s upper body is
strong
from landscaping the house neighbors said he designed himself
and
maintains with some hired
assistance.
Shelly Lavoie fled to the bathroom in the 16 East Litchfield
Road South home where the couple have
lived
for six years. Her husband fired a bullet that entered her
right
thigh, and passed through into her left
thigh where it became
lodged.
Lavoie
told his wife he was going to shoot her in the
back,
and in the ensuing struggle, Shelly
Lavoie, 47, seized the gun and threw
it out of
reach, then fled through the garage to her car. She grabbed
her
cell phone and phoned her mother to tell
her what was happening as she
drove herself to
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital.
Her mother
phoned
police, who were dispatched to the East
Litchfield home and to the
hospital to
interview Shelly Lavoie. The injured woman told detectives
her
husband was depressed and had talked about
suicide, claiming in recent
months that she
was cheating on him. She was transferred to
Hartford
Hospital, where her condition was
unavailable Wednesday.
To read
the
complete story see Thursday’s Republican-American or our
electronic
edition at: http://republicanamerican.ct.newsmemory.com/“
