Autopsy results on Meleanie Hain, the Lebanon County soccer-mom-turned-gun-advocate, revealed that she died last Wednesday night as a result of trauma from several gunshot wounds.
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Her husband, Scott Hain, went to an upstairs bedroom and used a shotgun to commit suicide after shooting his wife, police in Lebanon said.
A 9 mm handgun was used in the homicide, according to news reports.
Meleanie Hain's mother, Jenny Stanley, was quoted this weekend in the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying that Scott Hain was upset because the couple's relationship was stormy and her daughter was about to leave him.
Stanley lives in Lancaster, according to the Inquirer story. She could not be reached for comment Saturday.
A neighbor said in published reports that the couple's three children ran from the house Wednesday shouting "Daddy shot Mommy!"
The 33-year-old husband, who was a parole officer in Berks County, died as the result of trauma from a single shotgun wound, according to Lebanon Police Chief Daniel J. Wright.
Violence erupted while Meleanie Hain was in the kitchen of her Lebanon home, chatting with a family friend via webcam, Wright said in a statement.
The friend, who was not named and who lives in another county in Pennsylvania, was looking away from his screen when he heard what sounded like a gunshot and a scream, police said.
"He looked at his computer and observed Scott Hain walk into view and fire a handgun several times" in Meleanie Hain's direction, according to police.
Officers confiscated several handguns, a shotgun, two rifles and several hundred rounds of ammunition from the home.
Meleanie Hain's age has been reported as 30 or 31. She is a 1996 graduate of Hempfield High School.
She made headlines and became a symbol of the national gun-rights movement last year after she prompted complaints by carrying a holstered pistol to her young daughter's soccer game.
A Lebanon County sheriff, Michael DeLeo, revoked her concealed weapons permit. Meleanie Hains sued him for $1 million, claiming that she suffered emotional distress and lost customers from her in-home baby-sitting service.
A judge later overturned the judge's decision, but the suit remains pending.
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