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  • Crandall Officer kills wife, self

    Shitty.


    At midday on Wednesday, Dallas police and firefighters broke down the front door of a small townhome in the 1800 block of Browder Street in the Cedars to perform a welfare check. Inside, they found the bodies of Nick and Vanessa Pitofsky, both dead of gunshot wounds.

    Police are describing the slayings as a murder-suicide. Pitofsky, a 47-year-old Crandall police officer, allegedly shot his wife of three years, then turned the gun on himself.

    Police haven't specified a motive, though Fox 4's Natalie Solis says friends of Vanessa Pitofsky described her husband as "very jealous," though what sparked the jealousy, and if that's what prompted Pitofsky to allegedly pull the trigger, is unclear.

    The Dallas Morning News spoke with neighbors of the Pitofskys, who were surprised by the murder-suicide, but not overly so. Vanessa, 42, was social and active in the neighborhood. Nick the paper describes as "very focused and intense."

    Crandall PD issued a statement describing Pitofsky as an "energetic and jovial person who got along with everyone" and was "well-respected by his peers."

    Inevitably a couple of outlets, including the U.K.'s Daily Mail
    , searched out the YouTube video Pitofsky posted a few days earlier reviewing his new Mossberg 500 shotgun.

    In retrospect, his endorsement sounds rather ominous: "I purchased this as a self-defense weapon for my household, essentially for my wife."


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  • #2
    Wow, one of the guys I work with is a volunteer officer for Crandall and has been for more than 15 years. I bet he knew this couple pretty well. RIP
    Originally posted by Marisa
    we women are all irrational and emotional and insane...some just hide it better than others.

    truth.

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    • #3
      Ban cops!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by talisman View Post

        In retrospect, his endorsement sounds rather ominous: "I purchased this as a self-defense weapon for my household, essentially for my wife."
        Yeah, it was for his wife alright.

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        • #5
          I live in between Crandall and Forney and my kids go to Crandall schools. I'm sure I've bs'ed with this if not all the cops at length since they patrol our neighborhood and we are involved in the small town with sports and boy scouts. Sad to see not only because 2 lives were lost; but with the huge interaction the Crandall Police officers have with the small community and how many lives they effect in a good way on a daily basis. A lot of the kids that look up to the police officers won't understand something like this. Very tragic!

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