University of Toledo Murder-Suicide
UT student kills girlfriend, himself:
A University of Toledo criminal justice student fatally shot his girlfriend, a UT marketing student, and then killed himself early yesterday in his South Toledo apartment complex, where residents said they heard the victim’s terrified screams and gunshots.
Andrew M. Brown and Michelle Danielle Mielecki, who were 21 and 2003 graduates of Wapakoneta High School, were pronounced dead by authorities who arrived shortly after 2 a.m. at Arlington South Apartments, Toledo Police Sgt. Tim Noble said.
Ms. Mielecki died almost instantly from seven gunshot wounds to her torso that hit her liver and spleen, said Cynthia Beisser, deputy Lucas County coroner.
Brown died instantly of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head, Dr. Beisser said.
Ms. Mielecki’s family and others who knew the couple said they could not understand what happened and consistently referred to Brown in glowing terms.
“You just have two good kids from good families, and for whatever reason something just snapped in the head, and now we no longer have our children,” said Ms. Mielecki’s father, Tom.
Ms. Mielecki was shot in an inside hallway on the top floor of the three-story apartment building where Brown lived on Arlington Avenue near Medical University of Ohio.
Yesterday afternoon, bullet holes in a wall and a blood-stained carpet told of the murder-suicide that neighbors heard in progress. “First, I heard a female screaming along with some banging noises,” said Ashley Brewer, who lives on the second floor at the opposite end of the building.
“I heard her yelling, ‘Andrew! No!’ She probably said it three times. She was screaming like she was terrified.”
Ms. Brewer counted at least eight shots, she said, and when she called 911 a dispatcher had already heard from other neighbors and law enforcement was on the way.
Brown’s body was found inside his neat, two-bedroom unit, apartment 58, where police recovered the handgun they believe was used.
Sergeant Noble said he did not know yesterday if the gun belonged to Brown.
On Ms. Mielecki’s profile on myspace.com, a Web site for young people to interact and describe themselves, she wrote that Brown was her first and current love.
In response to the question “What do you want in a relationship right now,” she wrote, “I’m good.”
Here is Brown’s MySpace.
H/T to Noah.
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2 opinions for University of Toledo Murder-Suicide
EndlessMike
Jun 7, 2006 at 3:51 pm
[url=http://www.myspace.com/chelle2485]Here[/url] is Mielecki’s MySpace. “greatest fear: Dying or someone I love or close to me dying.”
alonte richey
Jun 8, 2006 at 11:12 am
Hi my home page has not been working lately.