Drinking and driving?



SAGAMORE HILLS, Ohio — Police say an Ohio man fatally shot himself in the head moments after realizing he had run over a friend in a bar parking lot.

Summit County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Cottle says witnesses saw Erich Schultz and Stacy DiJulius arguing in the parking lot after both had been drinking at a bar in Sagamore Hills, about 20 miles south of Cleveland.

Cottle says 38-year-old Schultz tried to drive away in his Jeep, but DiJulius tried to enter the vehicle as it moved and fell under one of the tires. Cottle says it appears Schultz accidentally ran over DiJulius and he felt so bad about it that he took out a gun and shot himself.

The 39-year-old DiJulius died at a hospital after Saturday night's accident. Schultz died on Sunday.

Looks like a love story to me

This has been talked about a lot in my local paper. Been following this story since it happened. It's really tragic that two lives were lost. RIP

PANDURITO said:

What's strange about this whole story is that some people claimed that even though the woman involved in this story was married, that these two people involved in this tragedy were dating. Then the story said that they weren't. I guess only they knew for sure.

Pretty empassioned stuff for "friends."

Regardless of the relationship, though, this is awful. I hope these crazy bros folk R.I.P.




Self edit: I'm not sure what this says about me, but I assumed these two were males. (Too much When Harry Met Sally thinking.) I stand corrected.

Still, terrible situation.
[Edited 3/25/09 10:13am]

Lammastide said:

It was a man and a woman who were involved in this tragedy.

I hope their argument wasn't over what a shitty driver he was....

pardonme4livin said:

I know that they were at a bar drinking, according to what I've read. An argument started inside the bar, and continued as they were walking out to the parking lot. It's really a senseless tragedy.

Sad.