over who Shelly Lavoie had been calling on her cell phone. Shelly Lavoie
told police that her husband, wheelchair bound from injuries suffered in a
motor vehicle crash during his teenage years, had grown increasingly
paranoid, and was taking anti-depressants." SSRI Stories note: The Physicians Desk Reference states that one of the side-effects of antidepressants, and this is not listed as rare, is "paranoia".
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Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:16 AM EST
'Man accused of shooting wife 'snapped'
BY BRIGITTE
RUTHMAN
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
LITCHFIELD — John Lavoie told a friend, "I shot
Shelly, I snapped."
The 53-year-old handicapped man who held police
at bay for nearly 10 hours Tuesday after shooting his wife in the thigh is
now being held on $500,000 bond on first-degree assault
charges.
According to the warrant for his arrest, Lavoie, a native
of Thomaston, told his friend Vincent Braucci Jr. during a late afternoon
phone conversation Tuesday that he didn't mean to do it. Upset and
remorseful, he still maintained his wife of 23 years was having an
affair.
Braucci told police a disagreement erupted Tuesday morning
over who Shelly Lavoie had been calling on her cell phone. Shelly Lavoie
told police that her husband, wheelchair bound from injuries suffered in a
motor vehicle crash during his teenage years, had grown increasingly
paranoid, and was taking anti-depressants.
According to the warrant, at 10:25 a.m. Lavoie grabbed a long rifle or shotgun, slipped at
least one round in the chamber, and went after his wife. The couple
struggled — although he is unable to use his legs, Lavoie's upper body is
strong from landscaping the house neighbors said he designed himself and
maintains with some hired assistance.
Shelly Lavoie fled to the bathroom in the 16 East Litchfield Road South home where the couple have
lived for six years. Her husband fired a bullet that entered her right
thigh, and passed through into her left thigh where it became
lodged.
Lavoie told his wife he was going to shoot her in the back,
and in the ensuing struggle, Shelly Lavoie, 47, seized the gun and threw
it out of reach, then fled through the garage to her car. She grabbed her
cell phone and phoned her mother to tell her what was happening as she
drove herself to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital.
Her mother phoned
police, who were dispatched to the East Litchfield home and to the
hospital to interview Shelly Lavoie. The injured woman told detectives her
husband was depressed and had talked about suicide, claiming in recent
months that she was cheating on him. She was transferred to Hartford
Hospital, where her condition was unavailable Wednesday.
To read
the complete story see Thursday's Republican-American or our electronic
edition at: http://republicanamerican.ct.newsmemory.com/"