Man kills wife, self in murder-suicide

• By JAMES MINTON
• Advocate Baker - Zachary bureau
• Published: Jul 23, 2009 - UPDATED: 12:58 p.m.

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A 42-year-old Centreville, Miss., man shot and killed his estranged wife in McComb, Miss., early today after he abducted her Wednesday night when she left work at a restaurant in West Feliciana Parish, Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said.

Michael S. Smith killed himself after fatally shooting his estranged wife, Kathy Smith, whom he abducted at gunpoint about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Daniel said the man ran the woman’s car off the road after she left work at South of the Border restaurant on U.S. 61 just south of the Louisiana-Mississippi line.

Michael Smith was recently released from the West Feliciana Parish Jail after he pleaded guilty on June 4 to a misdemeanor stalking charge, court records show.