Guest who confronted Glen Carbon man over beating of wife is fatally shot, police say http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_9d209ab1-9445-5817-a9c8-74311bb6b739.html
Perhaps if the victim had been armed the outcome might have been different.....But the best thing the victim could have done was left the scene and called the police.
Domestics are tricky things to deal with and it's never a good idea to involve yourself in someone else's business.
Updated at 5 p.m. with suspect charged.
GLEN CARBON • A Glen Carbon man is accused of beating his wife and then fatally shooting a guest at his home who tried to intervene.
Steven McGauley, 46, was charged Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of domestic battery, the Madison County Sheriff's Office said.
McGauley allegedly shot Steven W. Flack, 43, of Belleville on Sunday, the sheriff's office said. The shooting happened at McGauley's home in the 100 block of Hillcrest Drive. Police said several people were at the home at the time.
McGauley had beaten his wife and was confronted by Flack, police say. Their verbal confrontation escalated into a physical fight and then McGauley retrieved a gun and shot Flack several times, police said.
Flack was found unresponsive in McGauley's backyard about 8 p.m. and taken to Anderson Hospital in Maryville, where he was pronounced dead. He died from gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, coroner Steven P. Nonn said in a press release.
Judge Neal Schroeder ordered McGauley held without bail.
The coroner's office said Flack lived in Edwardsville. A man who answered the phone there Tuesday evening said no one who could check Flack's address would be in until Wednesday.
Perhaps if the victim had been armed the outcome might have been different.....But the best thing the victim could have done was left the scene and called the police.
Domestics are tricky things to deal with and it's never a good idea to involve yourself in someone else's business.