Murder suspect was ordered to stay away from wife
A Shawnee man who remains jailed on first-degree murder complaint for his wife’s shooting death was arrested for domestic violence in June and was to avoid contact with his wife as a provision for bond in that case, court documents reveal.
Edwin Leroy Scoby, 48, remains jailed without possibility of bail at the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center in connection with the shooting death of his wife, Nina (Johnson) Scoby, 48.
She died Tuesday of a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was homicide, the state medical examiner ruled. The case remains under investigation by Shawnee police and will be referred to the district attorney’s office for consideration of formal charges.
Shawnee Police Lt. Russell Frantz said an apparent domestic-related incident led to the shooting about 3 a.m. Tuesday in the bedroom of the couple’s home, 2525 N. Park. The couple had lived there about four months and had been married less than six months.
The couple’s marriage license, filed Feb. 14 in Pottawatomie County, shows Nina Scoby was from the Ulysses, Kan., area.
Tammy Lane-Reese, a friend of Nina Scoby’s who lives in Ulysses, Kan., told the News-Star Thursday she was shocked to read online news about Nina’s death. Lane-Reese said they hadn’t talked to each other in quite a while but they kept in touch by text message, with the latest being a few weeks ago.
She said her friend had previously lived in both Ulysses, Kan., and Liberal, Kan., and thinks her children still reside in Kansas.
“She loved her children and she had many friends,” Lane-Reese said, recalling the custom charms Nina Scoby would buy to have her children’s nicknames or birthstones put on them. “She was always thinking about her kids.”
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