A man was arrested after being involved in a head-on collision, but it wasn’t the accident that has him behind bars. The story weaves a tangled web of violence and abuse that eclipsed in a media blackout, but there’s a reason for the silence. What was found in an apartment has him facing stiff charges, and it provides a lesson many need to hear before it’s too late.
On Wednesday night, 35-year-old Martin McDonald of Weymouth, Massachusetts was involved in horrific car crash on I-495. His Dodge Ram pickup was headed south, crossed the median, and hit a car traveling north. McDonald had just driven away from a crime scene — one in which he killed his wife.
Moments before the police received the emergency call that there had been a car crash, they got a call from a person in an apartment, reporting a woman had been stabbed. Police arrived to find Julie Meede, 34, unresponsive. After taking her to the hospital, she was pronounced dead.
McDonald is the estranged husband of Julie, and he was arrested at the car accident scene for the stabbing murder of his wife. He was obviously a domestic abuser. The police even called this a “tragic case of domestic violence.” McDonald used a knife to extinguish the life of his spouse.
Massachusetts law prohibits even a misdemeanor domestic violence violator from owning a gun. However, McDonald didn’t need a gun, did he? He was bigger and stronger, and he easily overpowered his estranged wife in order to stab her to death.
Julie Meede could have easily leveled the playing field and been given a fighting chance if she had a gun. Unfortunately, this story could read “woman is recovering in the hospital after defending herself from her deranged husband,” but instead, it is a report of her untimely death.
Sadly, this is all to common in the United States. Women have been and still are becoming victims regularly, often because of their size and lack of self-defense knowledge. Thanks to leftists, many women don’t believe that their lives are worth protecting with bullets. The best way to prevent future murders, such as this one, is to have good women arm themselves.
