On Friday night in Pittsburg there was a shooting involving two families that have been fighting for just about two decades. Josephine Ruckinger, daughter of John and Roberta Frew, and her husband Jeffery attempted to murder her parents and brother. After John, John Jr., and Roberta arrived home from a dinner out, they were relaxing in the living room when Josephine and Jeffery arrived at the house and knocked on the door. Roberta answered and then yelled to her son John Jr. who tried to arm himself because Roberta had yelled that they had guns. Josephine and Jeffery were heavily armed; she had a 12-gauge shotgun and he had a pistol and .22 caliber semi-automatic. Josephine shot her mother at point blank range and then Jeffery shot John Jr. John Frew managed to grab a .22 revolver from the bedroom and shot his daughter (who he did not recognize) and then Jeffery after they both shot at each other. After all of that, John called the police. In the Ruckinger's car which was parked at the end of a long driveway, police found a gas can and lighter fluid; investigators said that John acted in self defense and that his family were victims of a pre-planned murder. The motives are unknown still, but it is known that Josephine and her family had not gotten along since she was 20 years old.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/29/daughter-killed-mom-shotgun/2891963/
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