Mindy McCready singer of "Guys Do it All the Time" shoots and kills herself

[sad-cafe]

Mindy McCready, the 37-year-old country singer from Ft. Myers, Florida, is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her death comes only three weeks after the apparent suicide of David Wilson, her record producer boyfriend and father of her infant boy.

With a history of alcohol and substance dependence issues, McCready was ordered to check into a rehabilitation clinic ten days ago due to family concerns following Wilson’s death. Billy Dukes at A Taste of Country reported that she was released a few days later for outpatient treatment but her two boys remained in foster care. In addition to nine-month-old Zayne, McCready has a six-year-old son, Zander, from her marriage to Billy McKnight.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2013/02/17/mindy-mccready-dead-of-apparent-suicide/

[Lil Missy]

1. How tragic.

[derby378]

2. Don't know anything about her, but this is sad news

Those poor boys of hers...

[shenmue]

3. That's awful

Sorry for her son too.

[TDale313]

4. Incredibly sad news.

My thoughts are with her loved ones, especially the two young children.

[bluestate10]

5. She has had a rough life over the last decade plus. I don't follow her music,

but her troubles are well known. I sometime follow sports and came across her story because of a one time affair with the Major League pitcher Roger Clemens.

[russspeakeasy]

13. an afffair with Clemens wouldn't have HELPED her situation.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

25. Most were self induced

She always struck me as someone who had a bit of a covet the struggle attitude. I work with someone like that who has to have never ending drama and turmoil in her life to be happy. The first sign of calm waters and she becomes uneasy.

Of course, none of us knew her. She did shoot her dog before she shot herself which is very sad. No reason to bring the poor dog into her never ending shit show.

[get the red out]

27. I didn't know that!

Poor dog! Probably good the kids were no longer living with her!

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. Pray or send vibes for her kids

Tragic and, frankly, stupid.

It's a permanent solution to temporary problems that now has left her sons without a mother.

[easttexaslefty]

21. You said,

"It's a permanent solution to temporary problems"
That's an tired worn cliche'. You personally have no idea how temporary or permanent her problems were.

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. Suicide is always a permanent solution to temporary problems

You personally have no idea how this will mess her kids up.

[easttexaslefty]

34. You assume a lot.

I know quite a bit about depression and suicide.

[duffyduff]

26. Apparently you never had somebody in your family take his or her life

at least judging by your attitude.

Contrary to libertarian propaganda that suicide is an act of courage, it is a selfish act.

She didn't hurt herself; she hurt her kids.

[Sheldon Cooper]

32. Oh my god.

Such ignorance, and all wrapped up in one post.

[polly7]

36. +1000. nt.

[easttexaslefty]

35. No, only my son.

Who was far from selfish. Suicide is not a "selfish" act. It's an act of desperation. Educate yourself. www.afsp.org is a good place to start.

[sad-cafe]

7. she had a great voice

I don't remember many of her songs, but "Guys do it all the time" was really good in the early 90's. I believe she was on celebrity rehap about the same time that Mike Starr was. Isn't he also gone as well?

[DearHeart]

14. She did have a wonderful voice. I feel so horrible for her little boys!

[hfojvt]

22. I only remember two

[liberal_at_heart]

8. I use to listen to her when I was a teenager

She's been suicidal for a long time. I'm so sad for her kids and sad for her that she could never seem to find peace.

[sad-cafe]

11. youngest kid used to enter talent shows and that was one of her songs

a "smarty" "peppy" little cute attitude song that would always garner little sc some praises

[sad-cafe]

9. here is a link with her singing

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/mindy-mccready-reportedly-commits-suicide-article-1.1266650?localLinksEnabled=false

[Nye Bevan]

10. Former mistress of Roger Clemens (nt)

[spanone]

12. sad life. sad death.

[sad-cafe]

15. so had she not had guns at her disposal

what would be different?

[flvegan]

16. While shitdiots will politicize this, my thoughts are with her family and her extended circle.

This is an extremely troubled family and we should see it as such.

[sad-cafe]

17. I think this has been going on a while

the celeb rehab she was on was at least 3 years ago. The family and friends should have recognized a long time ago that there were many problems.

[Sissyk]

23. If someone is not ready to fully face their problems

on their own, not much the family and friends can do. They tried.

RIP Mindy. Hope the little ones grow up in a loving home.

[nolabear]

18. I remember her. How incredibly tragic. I hope her children are surrounded with support and love.

[ecstatic]

19. Why wasn't her gun confiscated?

She was clearly distraught enough to lose custody of her sons, and they let her keep a gun? This is crazy!!! Temporary (?) depression combined with access to firearms is a horrible combination! I'm really disgusted! I feel so sorry for those boys.

[sad-cafe]

20. good point

bet no one thought of it?

[calimary]

28. Excellent point. Why was she allowed to keep her gun?

Doesn't anybody put two and two together anymore and get anything other than 49,375?

[get the red out]

29. This!

I also believe that someone with suicidal tendencies shouldn't have been released to "outpatient" treatment, probably more focused on substance abuse than mental health because if you are a substance abuser that's all you will be in the eyes of professionals.

[polly7]

30. I wondered that too,

but I think a lot of seriously depressed people hide really well the means they have to commit the act ... it's the only control when everything else is out of control ... maybe no-one else knew she had it?

[hack89]

33. Mentally ill people still have a right to due process

and right now due process means judcial adjudication. It needs to be changed but it is a hyper charged issue involving what civil rights can be removed from mentally ill people and how it is done. NY has implemented a database for people with mental.illness who are potentially violent - as you can imagine it is controversial.

[cbdo2007]

37. Why didn't you tell the authorities she had it?

You seem to be the one who knew she had a gun. Did you know where she was hiding it too?? If only you had given them this information they could have stopped this. (sarcasm)

I'm sure she just waved it around in court and gave the police a list of all of her guns and weapons and they said, "yeah, she'll probably be ok." (more sarcasm)

Seriously though, someone who wants to kill themselves, is going to kill themselves no matter if they have access to a gun or not. There are plenty of other ways to do it.

[catbyte]

31. She also shot her dog which really pisses me off. No excuse for that.