A North Carolina man last week shot his wife to death before turning the gun on himself — and left a message on Facebook, apparently between the two shootings, admitting what he’d done.
The Fuquay-Varina Police Department said it responded to a call about gunshots just after 6 p.m. on Saturday and found Cahtleen Lesniak, 59, and George Lesniak, 63, dead from gunshots. George Lesniak, the department said, “appeared to have sustained a self-inflicted fatal injury.”
According to Law&Crime, he posted to a Facebook group that he was the administrator of just three minutes before the shots fired call came into 911.
“My wife admitted to cheating on me so I killed her,” he said in the now-deleted post. “I’m about to kill myself. Figure this group out for [yourselves].”
The Facebook group was for technicians who work in “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” such as advanced cruise control and automatic emergency braking.
The group is now private, Law&Crime said.
Both of the Lesniaks worked in the automotive industry, according to the LinkedIn pages. George was vice president of training at Autel Automotive Intelligence until last fall, while his wife was a technical production manager at Advanced Auto Parts.
Fuquay-Varina, two small towns that merged into one slightly larger town, is a one time tobacco town located not far from North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park.
Police called the case “deeply tragic” and “complex” but did not outright rule it a murder suicide despite the Facebook confession.
