Monday, August 9, 2010

Monessen, PA: 3 Dead After Monessen Double Murder, Suicide

Police Say Husband Shot Wife, Man In Wheelchair

POSTED: 6:56 am EDT August 9, 2010
UPDATED: 7:26 am EDT August 9, 2010



MONESSEN, Pa. --


Police in Westmoreland County said a husband's jealousy is to blame for the death of a woman and her boyfriend on Sunday night.
According to police in Monessen, Vladimir Von Fisher, 42, became enraged when he spotted his estranged wife talking with a man in the Westgate housing development on Donner Avenue around 9 p.m.
Police said as Maedee Von Fisher, 39, and Nicholas Mascetta, 44, were talking in a group of people under a pavilion, Vladimir Von Fisher walked up to the couple and shot them both, before turning the gun on himself.
Mascetta, who police said was paralyzed from the waist down and used a wheelchair, was identified as Maedee Von Fisher's boyfriend. Witnesses at the scene told Channel 4 Action News' Janelle Hall that he worked on the assembly line at a local food pantry. A family member told Hall that Maedee Von Fisher had planned to file for a divorce.
Channel 4 Action News is following this story. Stay tuned to this page and Channel 4 Action News at noon for the latest updates
Westgate Manor is a public housing development that is owned by the county and houses residents who are elderly or disabled, Hall reported

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