Man shoots girlfriend, then kills himself

Published 05/18/09

TRACYS LANDING - A Tracys Landing man shot his girlfriend then turned the gun on himself yesterday in an attempted murder and suicide.

He died, but his girlfriend survived and was in critical, but stable condition this morning.

Neighbors along the quiet, rural Franklin-Gibson Road said they heard gunshots at 4:40 p.m. The man's father called 911 and reported he thought his son was beyond help, fire department spokesman Lt. Keith Hamilton said.

Officers responded to a house in the 6200 block of Franklin Gibson Road, south of Route 256 near Highview Road, where they said they found the couple. The woman was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore and Andrew Mackall, 21, died of his self-inflicted wound, police said.

He and the woman had been together for a few years and had a child together, police said. Mackall lived at home with his parents where the incident took place.

The couple got into an argument and Mackall walked off and broke into a secured gun safe elsewhere in the house, said Justin Mulcahy, county police spokesman.

"He grabbed a .357 handgun and shot the female one time in the torso and then turned the gun on himself," he said.

Mackall pleaded guilty to assault and domestic-violence charges in June 2008. He served 137 days and was on three years probation stemming from those charges.

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AS I SEE IT - 2009-05-19 08:15:43

by Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown. ----- As awful as this situation is, at least the victimizer shot himself. Now we don't have to spend valueable taxpayer money by wasting time in court in an attempt to give this man a life sentence. And more importantly, the victim, if she survives, and her family, won't have to relive this horrible trauma all over again in court.

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