DEADLY SNOW SHOOTING
Who was Jeffrey Spaide in Pennsylvania show shooting and who were neighbors James and Lisa Goy?
DISTURBING footage shows a disgruntled neighbor fatally shoot a couple in a snow shovelling row.
Jeffrey Spaide shot James and Lisa Goy in the middle of their street on February 1, 2021.
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Who was Jeffrey Spaide?
Jeffrey Spaide, 47, was an engineer from Wilkes Barre, who , before killing himself.
The son of William Spaide and the late Margaret Gibbon Spaide, he had served in the U.S. Navy as a shipboard engineering technician.
Spaide then joined the United States Army National Guard and United States Navy Reserve as a heavy equipment operator.
After working as a facilities engineer for the Lackawanna River Basic Sewer Authority for five years, he became an environmental engineer manager for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Spaide had a master's degree in water resources and environmental engineering from Villanova University and a bachelor’s degree from Wilkes University in environmental engineering.
He was later a project engineer for the Carroll Engineering Corporation for over 10 years.
Spaide lived in Plains Township and enjoyed running marathons as well as spending time with his nephew Jayden.
He is survived by sisters, Sharon and Jessica Spaide, his brother, William Spaide, and nieces and nephews, Derek, Bryonna, Che, Erycea and Jayden.
Who were neighbors James and Lisa Goy?
Spaide fatally shot his neighbours James, 50, and Lisa Goy, 48, after an argument regarding where they shovelled their snow.
The Goys' bodies were found in the suburban street as their 15-year-old autistic son was inside their home.
He is now being cared for by his grandparents.
It seems the couple had a history of disputes with their neighbor Spaide, which led to fatal consequences after the pair began shovelling snow on to his property.
What was the Pennsylvania shooting about?
The Goys became embroiled in a deadly row with their neighbor Spaide, after they began clearing snow from their cars.
The pair were dumping the excess snow on Spaide's property, prompting him to ask them to stop.
James Goy then stopped clearing the snow from his vehicle, walked across to his neighbor in the street and made a fist at him.
Surveillance footage shows the couple yell at Spaide, calling him a "mother******" and a "p****".
Spaide then went back inside his home as the couple continued shouting insults, before he emerged holding a pistol.
The Goys continued to goad him with verbal abuse before he fired several rounds, shooting James and then Lisa.
The gunman then took his own life as cops closed in on him in the Hudson section of Plains Township in .
Neighbors say they heard about a dozen shots fired. Police later said a total of 15 to 20 shots were fired during the confrontation.
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have officially ruled the deadly triple shooting a murder-suicide, the .
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The grieving family of the couple have been left devastated over the attack.
Family member that the "sickening"; incident over snow was an "execution" - and blasted those sharing video footage of the tragic incident.
He captioned a picture of the family: "For whoever is posting the video of my family being executed I hope you rot in f****g hell.
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"They had a 15 year old boy and our family has been through enough. Have some respect!
"The audacity of some people. If you see it report it and tell the people to take it down please for my family's sake."
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