Two Dead After Protective Order Expires

"BOOSIER CITY, LA — Another local couple is dead after a husband gunned down his wife and then himself Tuesday.

"Bossier City police are investigating that city's second and the area's fourth murder-suicide of the year after two bodies were found in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in the 2800 hundred block of East Texas Street about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.

"Police and fire crews responded to calls of a shooting and found Allan Corby Haltom, 45, of Haughton, and his estranged wife, Angela Gaye Haltom, 44, both shot dead.

"Detectives believe Allan Haltom parked his car next to his wife's and waited for her to leave the church day care where she was employed. Detectives said he shot her while sitting in his vehicle and then shot himself.

"Church personnel told police no children were in the day care or parking lot at the time of the shooting.

"The day care will be closed today.

"The investigation is still ongoing, Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale said.

"Bossier Clerk of Court filings show that Angela Gaye Haltom filed divorce proceedings against her husband June 6 and three days later obtained a protective restraining order against him.

"The same filings showed that protective order expired Tuesday. She renewed the order, which was to have been in effect through Nov. 15.

"Tuesday's murder-suicide is the fourth in the Shreveport-Bossier City area this year. In every case, the husband murdered his wife before taking his own life."

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