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A dispute over snow shoveling ended with a murder-suicide that left three people dead last week in northeastern Pennsylvania, authorities said.The Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office said Jeffrey Spaide got into an argument Monday morning, Feb. 1, with James and Lisa Goy, who lived across the street from him in Plains.The Goys were shoveling snow from their parking spots onto Spaide’s property, the district attorney’s office said. Spaide asked them to stop, and the argument escalated.According to police, Spaide went into his home, came out with a handgun and fired multiple shots at the Goys. Police said Spaide then went back into his house, pulled out an AR-style rifle and fired again at the victims.Officers arrived soon after the shooting and heard a gunshot from Spaide’s house, police said. He was found dead of a self-inflicted wound.
An obituary posted last week by Kniffen O’Malley Leffler Funeral & Cremation Services said Spaide was “a shipboard engineering technician” for the Navy.
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PLAINS TOWNSHIP, Pa. The Pennsylvania man caught on video ruthlessly gunning down two neighbors during a snow-shoveling dispute Monday before turning the gun on himself was an engineer and a decorated Navy veteran, according to reports.
Jeffrey Allen Spaide, 47, a Wilkes-Barre native, graduated from Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering in 2001 and went on to get his master’s degree in water resources and environmental engineering from Villanova University in 2005.
“Jeff was employed as a licensed engineer for over 20 years,” his obituary reads. “He also served in the United States Navy, working as a shipboard engineering technician.”