Wife of Wisconsin Shooter Begged For Restraining Order Hours Before Her Death

Gun possession ban was also handed down to Radcliffe Haughton

Murder-suicides, by their very nature, leave a mountain of unanswered questions. When the killer pulls the trigger first on his victim and then himself, he takes with him to the grave the reasons that compelled the angry, desperate act.

Not so in the case of Radcliffe Haughton.

What prompted the 45-year-old former Marine to open fire at a suburban Milwaukee salon Sunday—killing not just his wife and two other women, but also wounding four others—was foreshadowed in no uncertain terms by his estranged wife just three days earlier.