Police: Children saw mother murdered:
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VINELAND, N.J. -February 4, 2008 -- Grief counselors were on hand at Marie Durand Elementary School in Vineland today.
They were there to help both teachers and students cope with the death of a longtime and beloved teacher, 35-year-old Sharon Bortle.
Police say Bortle was killed yesterday afternoon when her estranged husband, 45-year-old Frank Bortle, shot her in the head.
Frank Bortle allegedly used his 20-gauge shotgun to fire a single shot at his estranged wife as the couple's two young children looked on.
Sharon Bortle had gone to her estranged husband's house to pick up her 9-year-old son. He ran to a neighbor's house for safety after the shotgun blast killed his mother instantly.
When police arrived, the couple's 4-year-old daughter was still strapped in her car seat inside the blood-soaked SUV.
Police say Frank Bortle shot himself in the face when police arrived.
He was transported to Cooper University Hospital where he remains in critical condition under police guard. He is expected to survive.
I'm sure I've said this before but to me only pedophiles are lower than wife beaters. The only time a man should ever raise a hand to a woman is if she's lunging at you with a butcher knife. Even then you probably did something to deserve it. For a scumbag like this to shoot his wife with a shotgun in front of their kids is one of the most cowardly acts possible. It's too bad he lived.
One point for the murder, two points for each of his kids that had to witness it, and an extra point tacked on for trying to take the cowards way out, nets this scumbag four points for The Garden State.
