Woman Survives Violent Breakup

"ZIONSVILLE, IN — A Whitestown woman survived what police believe was a murder/suicide attempt by her boyfriend, who fatally shot himself Monday.

"Police about 8:20 p.m. found Angie Cantrell, 53, standing outside an apartment in the 6100 block of Westhaven Drive with a gunshot wound to her shoulder, Whitestown Police Chief Dennis Anderson said. Lloyd K. Kruckebery, 53, was found inside the apartment dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"`She had notified him earlier in the evening their relationship was going to end, and that’s when things became violent,` Anderson said. `She suffered some physical injuries she said were from him, and as she was attempting to flee the apartment, he retrieved a small-caliber handgun from his belongings and began firing several shots inside the apartment, one of which struck her.`

"Anderson assumes that Kruckebery meant to kill Cantrell before killing himself.

"`I don’t know why you would shoot somebody if you were not intending to,` Anderson said. `There’s no way we’ll ever know.`

"Cantrell’s injury appeared not to be serious, he said, but he added she was kept overnight at St. Vincent Hospital for observation.

"She had lived at the address for two years, he said. The man had stayed there more recently for an unknown period of time, he said."

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