Police on Monday have identified the couple who died in a murder-suicide, but they were still trying to determine what led the woman to kill her husband and herself.
Gwinnett County police said Ms. Hyun “Mickey” Ok Yu shot her husband, Mr. Shan Chun Yu, in the head while he was sitting at the computer Saturday night, police spokesman Cpl. Edwin Ritter said.
She then turned the gun on herself.
It was a rare case of murder-suicide: A woman killing her husband.
A family member called police just before 11 p.m. about the shooting inside the home at 6130 Zachery Drive, Cpl. Ritter said.
The 46-year-old husband died at the home and Ms. Ok Yu, 36, died on arrival at Gwinnett Medical Center, Cpl. Ritter said.
A woman shooter in a murder-suicide case was rare.
Based on recent data from 17 states, female homicide-suicides account for only 8.6 percent ofthe total, according to a report on the killing of famed NFL quarterback Mr. Steve McNair published by The Crime Report.
The Washington-based Violence Policy Center found in a survey of news reports that about 95 percent of murder-suicides were perpetrated by men in 2007, a proportion that has stayed fairly constant since the center started keeping statistics in 1992.
“It’s very unusual for the woman to be a shooter in a murder-suicide,” the center's Kristen Rand told Newsweek.
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