Murder-Suicide Prozac 06/01/1998 Texas 18 Year Old Girl Kills Boyfriend & Self
 
 Summary:<br><br><!--StartFragment -->A member of the Prozac Survivor&#39;s Support Group <strong>has confirmed that this teen-aged girl was taking Prozac at the time of the murder-suicide.<br />__________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></strong>Victim didn&#39;t want to go home, boss says<br /><br />Girlfriend killed man,self, police say<br /><br />By Stephen Power, Jason Sickles / Staff Writers of The Dallas Morning News<br />Published 01-08-1998<br /><br />Hours before his death, Tucker Soggs asked his boss of five days for a salary advance to help pay for a motel room. He and his girlfriend were fighting, he said, and he didn&#39;t want to go home.<br /><br />&quot;I live with a psycho . . . and I don&#39;t want to be around her,&quot; Mr. Soggs&#39; boss quoted him as saying.<br /><br />Mr. Soggs, 26, never made it to a motel. His relationship with Sara Lowe, 18, ended in gunfire Tuesday night outside the Far North Dallas tanning salon where he had worked for less than a week.<br /><br />Dallas police said Wednesday that Ms. Lowe asked Mr. Soggs to step outside the business about 8 p.m. and shot him several times. She then turned the gun on herself.<br /><br />&quot;She was found lying right next to him,&quot; homicide Sgt. Larry Lewis said.<br /><br />Mr. Soggs died on the parking lot of the Campbell Road shopping center near Coit Road. Ms. Lowe died minutes later at a Plano hospital.<br /><br />Police said they found a new box of shells close to the fallen couple.<br /><br />&quot;Thank God she asked him to come outside,&quot; said Debbie Linksman, 40, owner of a neighboring delicatessen, who heard the shots and called police. &quot;If there were some people in the store, and she was really going off the wall, she could have hurt a lot more people.&quot;<br /><br />Dallas police said they have investigated only eight slayings since March 1995 in which a woman was the attacker.<br /><br />&quot;It&#39;s not unheard of . . . but women committing homicides is extremely rare,&quot; said Sgt. Ches Williams, a supervisor in the police family violence unit. &quot;Women just rarely kill, and it&#39;s even rarer in family violence cases.&quot;<br /><br />The murder-suicide ended what Mr. Soggs&#39; relatives described Wednesday as a sometimes-troubled relationship.<br /><br />&quot;I don&#39;t think anybody in our family expected anything like this, &quot; said his uncle, Tom Soggs, from his home in Erie, Pa.<br /><br />Ms. Lowe&#39;s father, who lives in Plano, also had no explanation.<br /><br />&quot;We don&#39;t know what happened, and we don&#39;t know why it happened, &quot; Michael Lowe said. &quot;She was a very loving, very caring person.&quot;<br /><br />Sgt. Lewis said that police found a typed note in the couple&#39;s Richardson apartment but that he could not discuss details of its contents.<br /><br />&quot;It didn&#39;t give any indication about what she was about to do,&quot; he said.<br /><br />A handwritten note in Ms. Lowe&#39;s car contained only instructions for police on how to contact family members.<br /><br />&quot;Everyone we talked to, including family, friends and neighbors, said that she was very happy,&quot; Sgt. Lewis said. &quot;That&#39;s not all that uncommon in these cases.&quot;<br /><br />Richardson police said Ms. Lowe had called them shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday to say that she and her &quot;ex-boyfriend&quot; were arguing and that she could not get him to leave the apartment they shared. A patrol officer went there but made no arrests because he found no evidence of physical violence.<br /><br />Mr. Soggs &quot;told the officer he would go stay at another apartment for the night,&quot; said Sgt. Ray Pennington, a Richardson police spokesman. &quot;Both were given a family violence handout.&quot;<br /><br />Tim Soggs, the victim&#39;s father, said he suspects the argument may have involved his son&#39;s staying out Monday night to celebrate a promotion at the tanning salon.<br /><br />&quot;Knowing him, he probably didn&#39;t call her and tell her where he was at and when he would be home,&quot; Mr. Soggs&#39; father said Wednesday from Erie, Pa.<br /><br />Tim Soggs, who visited his eldest son for Thanksgiving, said he doesn&#39;t know how the couple met but thought they had been together for about a year.<br /><br />&quot;My experiences with Sara were mixed,&quot; he said. &quot;She was real enthusiastic and had a nice, pleasant side. But she could also get very verbally abusive and jealous. She seemed pretty insecure.&quot;<br /><br />Although Ms. Lowe had never been violent, Tim Soggs said, he encouraged his son to leave the relationship.<br /><br />&quot;I&#39;m sure he recognized it was unhealthy the way she behaved,&quot; he said. &quot;When they were doing well, anybody could have been convinced they were a great couple.&quot;<br />PHOTO(S): Tucker Soggs<br /><br />? 1998 The Dallas Morning News All Rights Reserved<br /><br />Stephen Power, Jason Sickles / Staff Writers of The Dallas Morning News, Victim didn&#39;t want to go home, boss says<br /><br />Girlfriend killed man,self, police say., 01-08-1998, pp 25A.<br /><br />&lt;Picture&gt;Start a new search<br /><br /> 
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