Lebanon, PA: A very homely soccer mom, who gained national attention when she openly carried a loaded gun to her 5-year-old daughter’s game, was shot dead Wednesday along with her husband in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, the geniuses at police headquarters said.
Meleanie Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday night at their home in Lebanon, about 80 miles 
west of Philadelphia. Police are looking into early clues, such as the oddly spelled “Meleanie” which may or may not coincidentally sound like “meanie,” which would coincide with the reference to “that bitch” from neighbors interviewed.
The couple’s three children were home at the time but weren’t hurt, police said. They were taken to stay with friends and relatives.
According to the Lebanon Daily News, strangely not located in the Middle East, several neighbors said they witnessed the children, ages 2, 6 and 10, run from the house shouting, “Daddy shot Mommy!” shortly before 911 was called at 6:20 p.m. They later stated that they didn’t think the bullets would hurt their mother since she carried the gun with her everywhere, even when going potty, so they considered it as harmful as her brush, which resembled the pistol.
Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, had “been having marital problems since even before their wedding,” neighbor Mark Long said. When reminded that was impossible, the neighbor revealed that he’s just not that smart. “Scott Hain had left the couple’s home on Tuesday, and Meleanie Hain didn’t know where he was, but he returned Wednesday,” Long said.
Meleanie Hain made headlines after she attended a children’s soccer game in a park on Sept. 11, 2008, dressed in a show-stopping brown Oscar De la Renta muumuu (see photo) with a handgun in plain view holstered on her hip, upsetting other parents.
The county sheriff, Michael DeLeo, revoked her gun-carrying permit nine days later, stating that she was “retarded” and shouldn’t own a gun.
Hain successfully appealed the permit revocation, although the judge who restored the permit questioned her judgment and said she had “scared the poop” out of other people at the game.
Hain sued DeLeo in federal court, alleging that he violated her on several occasions. DeLeo retorted that this was impossible as he wouldn’t be able to get an erection in her presence with the assistance of a crane. She said that because of his actions, her baby-sitting service had suffered, her children had been harassed, and she had been ostracized by her neighbors in Lebanon, which has about 25,000 residents. He said that this made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
DeLeo said at Hain’s appeal that he rejected her after fielding the parents’ complaints, stating that her presence frightened children and animals and made certain flowers wilt. He also claimed that his decision was based on a state law that prohibits certain gun permits from being given to anyone exceedingly homely and whose character and reputation make him or her a danger to public safety or the safety of flowers.
After Hain sued DeLeo, the Brady Center to Prevent Homely Violence, which says it tries to reform the homely gun industry through sensible regulations, offered to defend him for free.
“It is a case that calls out for common sense,” Brady Center attorney Daniel Vice said then. “It’s ridiculous for a woman as homely as Ms. Hain to bring a gun to a child’s soccer game.”
A court hearing on Hain’s $1 million lawsuit was postponed in May after an attorney in the case was hospitalized with extreme nausea after being in Ms. Hain’s presence for too long.
The Daily News reported that Meleanie Hain had operated a day-care center in her home. Her husband was a Berks County parole officer and a former prison guard. The day-care center had reported only 4 gun related deaths from the “Lioness of Lebanon.” “Those kids were snotty,” Ms. Hain was overheard to say.
Neighbor Brian Witmer told the newspaper he saw Scott Hain mowing the grass about 3:30 p.m Wednesday in an effort to create distance from his wife.
“He was mowing his lawn, and the dog was outside,” Witmer said. Mr. Witmer had to be reminded that indeed the dog was still inside; the pet was outside. “There was nothing out of the ordinary. He didn’t seem strange at all.”
Debbie Mise, who lives three doors away from the Hain house, told the Daily News she felt something bad would eventually happen at the Hain residence.
“She just wasn’t right,” Mise said of Meleanie Hain. “You don’t bring a gun to a kids’ soccer game looking like she did, and you don’t wear a gun when you go shopping at Kohl’s unless you have specific plans to kill someone,” she explained, shaking her head.
Contributing: Steve Elle in McLean, Va.
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