State Trooper, Wife Killed: Why Did Mark Miscavish Murder Traci Miscavish At The Supermarket?

A former state trooper and his wife died Thursday inside a Pennsylvania supermarket. Retired Pennsylvania State Trooper Mark R. Miscavish, 51, allegedly killed his estranged wife, Traci Miscavish in Philipsburg, Pa. A retired 15-year veteran of the state police, Mark Miscavish was allegedly having recent disagreements with his wife.

Late Thursday morning, the former state trooper went to the County Market looking for Traci Miscavish. When he located her in an office on the upper floor of the building, he shot her and then himself.

This was not the former state trooper's first confrontation with his wife. According to USA Today, Mark Miscavish was arrested two months ago after he attempted to bind and gag Traci Miscavish after finding a cache of allegedly misused prescription drugs the trooper was supposedly abusing. At the time, Mark Miscavish was charged with harassment, terroristic threats and simple assault in the incident.

The murder-suicide was reported by a bystander around 10 a.m. Nearby merchants in the town approximately half an hour west of Penn State University placed many of their stores on lockdown when a number of police cars appeared on scene.

Traci Miscavish's sister, Gina March, allegedly told the press that Traci held a restraining order against Mark Miscavish at the time of the killing. She had filed for divorce against the former state trooper last week. Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller told the Associated Press that Traci Miscavish had eerily predicted the shooting to her.

"'The next time I see him, it will be at the end of a gun,'" she told Parks Miller following the earlier January incident.