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Gun-toting soccer mom's autopsy results due today

LEBANON, Pa. — Police planned to release additional details today about the final hours of a suburban mother who was found shot dead with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide. The woman last year shocked other parents by openly carrying a loaded handgun at her daughter's youth soccer game.

Meleanie Hain, who ran a baby-sitting service and became a voice of the gun rights movement, and Scott Hain, a parole officer, were found dead Wednesday inside their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, but their three children were unharmed.

Police Chief Daniel Wright said he planned to disclose more about the case following autopsies to be done today.

The couple's children were at a nearby house when police arrived Wednesday night to answer 911 calls from neighbors, Wright said.

Meleanie Hain's mother, Jenny Stanley, told WGAL-TV that the children, ages 2, 6 and 10, are "hanging in there."

"I'm devastated," Stanley said. "I lost my daughter. I lost my best friend. The children lost their parents."

Neighbors said the Hains were not outgoing, and several said Meleanie Hain wore her holstered gun regularly when walking the dog or going to the grocery store.

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