Husband charged with wife’s shooting
UPPER TYRONE TWP. – An early morning argument led to gunfire early Tuesday morning, leaving an Upper Tyrone Township woman dead and her husband behind prison bars. Glenn Wilmer Geary, 55, of 190 Geary Road is accused of shooting his wife, Sally Ann Geary, as she sat in her car outside the couple’s home. He is charged with criminal homicide.
According to the criminal complaint filed by police, Sally Geary was found sitting in the driver’s seat of a Ford Escape outside the home when officers arrived shortly before 9 a.m.
Glenn Geary told police he had arrived home from work Monday at about 10:45 p.m., and shortly thereafter the two got into a heated argument.
“I left the residence in my truck and drove approximately a mile and a half from the residence, where I sat and listened to the radio and drank several Old Milwaukee beers,” Geary said in a written statement.
When he later returned to the home, he found his wife and the couple’s second vehicle gone, he told police.
A short while later, Geary said, he heard the dog barking, and with his 12-gauge Mosberg shotgun and a lantern, he went to see what was causing the pet’s reaction.
Geary said he saw his wife pulling into the driveway, but instead of stopping she drove toward him.
“I had to run up on the porch or she would have hit me,” he told police.
Geary told police that his wife made “derogatory comments” to him from the car, and he responded by firing a shot at the vehicle.
“I was trying to fire a round over the car,” he told police. “After I shot the gun, I saw the hole in the windshield. I didn’t hear Sally say anything else.
“I saw her laying in the car. I knew I had shot her.”
Geary also told police that he went into the house and contemplated shooting himself, but he called his daughter and she kept him on the telephone until police arrived at the home.
A handcuffed Geary, wearing a gray T-shirt with the logo “Safety Starts With You,” sighed heavily and laid his head on the table as he waited for the Tuesday arraignment hearing to begin before District Justice Michael Rubish of Perryopolis.
Rubish, scheduled a May 14 preliminary hearing date and told Geary that he was unable to establish a bond amount because of the nature of the felony offense.
“You are going to go to jail,” said Rubish. “Do you understand?”
“Yes sir. I understand,” Geary responded.
A few feet away, Sonrisa Dulik, the victim’s daughter sat weeping.
“We wanted her to get out,” she said after the hearing. “We knew something like this was going to happen.”