A Pennsylvania woman who was abducted by her husband was found dead in a barn — and officers found the man near her with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said Tuesday.
(FOX)- State police and South Strabane officers surrounded the barn near where a car owned by the woman and her husband had been found, according to thePittsburgh Post-Gazette. Authorities found the body of Tierne Ewing, 48, at around 11 p.m.
Crews rushed 47-year-old Kevin Ewing to the hospital. His condition was unclear. He was charged with kidnapping for the second time in mere months.
The husband had been free on bond while awaiting trial on charges he abducted and beat his wife while holding her captive for nearly two weeks earlier this summer when he allegedly kidnapped her again Tuesday.
Police said Ewing abducted his wife at gunpoint at around 12:30 a.m. from a West Finley house near the West Virginia border.
Ewing had been wearing an electronic ankle bracelet to confine him to his home since he posted $100,000 bail on the earlier charges July 11.
According to county adult probation officials, such devices can be programmed to provide GPS information but only if the court orders that. That wasn’t ordered in Ewing’s case, so his bracelet merely sends out a signal to authorities if he’s left the house, they said.