Posted: Feb 16, 2010 2:21 PM PST
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Shooter apparently distressed before shooting; estranged wife speaks
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by John Cuoco
GATESVILLE- Police continue to investigate Monday's murder-suicide in Gatesville that took the lives of two people.
David Henry's MySpace page shows that in the final days before he pulled the trigger, he expressed feelings of being depressed over some personal relationships.
Monday around 4:25 p.m. Henry shot his girlfriend 42-year-old Carrie Stroope three times and then killed himself on the steps of the Coryell County Courthouse.
But the day before on his MySpace page, Henry commented on how bad his Valentine's Day was, that he felt betrayed and broken.
According to a friend, David was served a restraining order the day before, on Feb. 14 from Stroope.
Henry's estranged-wife told News Channel 25 Tuesday that he had problems even before that. "Things got really stupid, he had a lot of things he was still dealing with from way in the past and he couldn't deal with it," Donna Henry said.
She said her and David, an ex-Marine and current TDC jail maintenance supervisor, had been separated for about one year and saw an attorney together the morning of the shooting. She added they still remained friends and a close family with their two teenage girls.
"That was their father, he is and will always will be their hero," she explained.
In an e-mail, a friend of David said he never thought the alleged shooter was capable of this. A a neighbor called the relationship with Stroope odd.
On his page, Henry himself asked for forgiveness before the murder-suicide, saying finally, "this is not a life."
The bodies of David Henry and Carrie Stroope have both been taken to Dallas for an autopsy.
Gatesville police said they've also been looking at Henry's MySpace page and are continuing to investigate this case.
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