Shelby Township, MI: Police: 2 men dead, woman hurt in Shelby Twp. murder-suicide

Christine Ferretti and Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News
Shelby Township -- Two men are dead and a woman critically injured in what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide.
Shelby Township police say Suzanne Moore had been planning to ask her husband for a divorce. That conversation apparently occurred late Monday before neighbors of Kenneth and Suzanne Moore heard desperate screams for help and five gunshots that left 50-year-old Kenneth Moore, and the pair's acquaintance, Steven Zahn, 59, dead.
Shelby Township Police Chief Robert Leman said officers responded to the couple's home on Burning Bush Court at the Shelby West Mobile Home Community after 10 p.m. Inside they found Suzanne Moore, 55, critically injured with a gunshot wound.
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Zhan had been shot three times with a shotgun and Kenneth Moore died of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound, Leman said.
Leman said Suzanne Moore has told investigators that she was planning to seek a divorce from her husband. She remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital.
Next door neighbor Stacey Kopchak said she and her husband Jason were watching television last night when they heard a "high-pitched scream" and then Suzanne Moore called to her neighbor for help.
"She yelled 'help me, God, Jason please help me,' " said Kopchak, 34. "We heard blood-curdling screams. Then we hit the floor and heard five shots. We had no idea what was going on."
Kopchak said her husband forced her to hide in a closet. He then barricaded himself in a bedroom with their three children.
She later crawled from her hiding spot to retrieve her cell phone and called police, Kopchak said.
Police say Zhan had been staying with the Moores for a couple months after a recent illness.
Leman said it is not known at this time if there was a relationship between Suzanne Moore and Zhan that may have prompted the attack.
Kopchak said the couple was always friendly. Suzanne Moore works for Home Depot, she said, and her husband stayed home. He hadn't worked for about 20 years after he lost part of his leg in a motorcycle accident, Kopchak said.
The two lived next door for about a year and a half. Jason Kopchak sometimes played video games with Kenneth Moore and the Moores even shared juice boxes and cookies with the Kopchak's three young children.
"There was never any indication of violence," Kopchak said.
Kopchak added she and her husband noticed recently that Kenneth Moore had become "withdrawn."
Hours before the shooting, a neighbor saw Suzanne Moore entering the home with suitcases.
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