Medic back from Iraq charged in wife’s death

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EUGENE, Ore. — A Junction City man who recently returned from Iraq was charged with killing his estranged wife, who was shot three times as police officers tried to open the front of door of her rented duplex, authorities said.

The shooting, which happened two days before Christmas, left a 2-year-old girl without a mother.

Tyke Thomas Supanchick, 27, was in Lane County Jail on Saturday on a charge of aggravated murder. Police said he shot his wife, Kelly, three times with a shotgun.


Supanchick’s father had called police Friday after waking to find his son gone from the family’s Junction City home. He had been staying there since Nov. 21, when a judge approved Kelly Supanchick’s request for a restraining order.

WE turned him into a murdering machine...

The military?

PB

After talking to his wife for four hours, he said, he heard the police at the door. According to the affidavit, that’s when he decided to perform a “failure drill,” a military tactic of firing two rounds into the body and one round into the head.
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I was just trying to clarify what was meant by "we".

Besides, just because the military taught him that doesn't mean they are responsible for him going over the edge. That's like saying someone who commits vehicular homicide can just blame the parents for teaching him to drive. There are millions of ppl who pass through the military who never go over the edge. The failure, imo, was on him... and perhaps (a big perhaps) on his direct commander who didn't recognize that he was potentially psychotic.

One forgets that the service is full of young people who believe that force usually fixes all problems. That is why they are their and do a good job. Medic are usually not the ones that do the deeds but fixes them after.

round in the head, two rounds in the body, I would say he must have been trained how to kill.

A Gen. named Chesty Puller (Sp) did start training navy medic a little different. Once they did not even carry guns. He said they had to be able to defend them self on the battle field. Medics on subs did not even have to stand a military watch if they did not want to. As I said I am from another age here.

how special is that for a MEDIC to learn?? :puke:

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After talking to his wife for four hours, he said, he heard the police at the door. According to the affidavit, that’s when he decided to perform a “failure drill,” a military tactic of firing two rounds into the body and one round into the head.

Tyke Supanchick was a medic with the Navy and was in Iraq earlier this year. Kelly Supanchick and their baby moved to Eugene from North Carolina in April to be closer to her husband’s family in Junction City. The couple married in Oregon in 2003.
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protection even though she had a restraing order. See TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO v. GONZALES

It was illegal for Supanchick to possess a firearm or ammunition.

The incident is sad but it does emphasize that self-defense is a personal problem.

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defend them self?