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Two dead in Au Gres shooting
Man shoots his former girlfriend, then himself, police, family say
Monday, September 6, 2004 AU GRES - Relatives of a 30-year-old Au Gres woman said they're struggling to understand why the woman was shot to death over the weekend in what police call an apparent murder-suicide. Holly Schwind was killed in her Sims Township home sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, presumably by her former boyfriend, 30-year-old John D. Smith, who then killed himself. "Why does somebody do this?" asked Schwind's mother, Chris Schwind of Saginaw County's Blumfield Township. "I don't believe this happened to my daughter." Arenac County Sheriff's Department officers confirmed that Holly Schwind was killed and that a 30-year-old man was the suspected perpetrator. Police refused to identify the suspect, but Chris Schwind identified him as John D. Smith, Holly's ex-boyfriend, originally from Caro. Smith's mother, 68-year-old Flora Smith, told The Times that police theorize her son killed himself after shooting Holly Schwind at Schwind's house at 4318 E. Michigan Ave., several miles northeast of Au Gres. Police said the bodies were found at the residence at 11:20 a.m. Saturday. Holly Schwind broke up with Smith several months ago, Chris Schwind said. "She said 'He's mean, he's got a temper and I'm scared of him."' Flora Smith said her son, who once worked as a bouncer at Steamer's Pub in Bay City, was beside himself due to an on-again, off-again romance with Holly Schwind. Flora Smith described her son as Schwind's current boyfriend, rather than an ex-boyfriend. "John couldn't take it any more," Flora Smith said. "I think his mind just snapped." Chris Schwind said Smith shot her daughter a number of times before shooting himself to death. Holly Schwind, business manager of the Dean Arbour Ford Mercury dealership in Tawas City, "was the epitome of an all-American, goal-oriented business woman who worked hard," Chris Schwind said. "She always had a smile on her face and she got people to smile with her," said R. Scott Chapleski, 41, of Sims Township, whose wife, Colleen Arbour Chapleski, is part-owner of the dealership. "She was one of my wife's best friends and one of our best employees," Chapleski said, noting that Schwind worked for four years at the Dean Arbour Ford Jeep dealership in Pinconning before moving to the Tawas City dealership about four years ago. Flora Smith said John Smith, a graduate of Caro High School in Tuscola County, occasionally lived with her and his father, Delmer Smith, near Caro. Flora Smith said her son quit a job in Au Gres a number of weeks ago, then left the state for Arizona to visit a sister and "get away for a while." Chris Schwind said her daughter wasn't expecting to see Smith this past weekend. Chris Schwind said she really liked John Smith, and said her daughter met him in a fitness center near Saginaw. "I was surprised John had this temper and that Holly was afraid of him," Chris Schwind said. "He worked as a bouncer in a bar, and he was a bodybuilder. He acted like he worshipped her. But that was the problem." Holly Schwind, a 1992 graduate of Nouvel Catholic Central High School in Saginaw Township, was a cheerleader and a candidate for homecoming queen at Nouvel, said her aunt, 53-year-old Vera M. Stephens of Bridgeport Township. Holly Schwind earned a bachelor's degree from Northwood University in 1996, and was president of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, Chris Schwind said. Holly Schwind bought her own home along East Michigan Avenue near Au Gres last year, and the home offered Saginaw Bay access, according to Dennis A. Stanley, 50, co-owner of Pete Stanley & Associates, an Au Gres real estate company. "She loved living up north on the water," Chris Schwind said. Autopsies will be done on Schwind and Smith in the coming days, their relatives said. Funeral arrangements for Holly Schwind will be handled by the Cederberg Brietzke Funeral Home, 403 N. Michigan Ave., in Saginaw. Collon Funeral Home of Caro will handle arrangements for John Smith. |
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