Investigators say attorney Doug Lewis was killed and his office was set on fire by a man whose wife Lewis recently represented. WXIA’s Jon Shirek reports.
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Divorces are damageing to men this is pay back
Hooray, of course we’ve got the mra’s losers here who need to comment… I could really live without people like you, always playing the male victims.
Karma come knocking at the lawyers door.👍
@J DMMG you will come around
Men get the shirt end of the stick when it comes to divorces.
Send him to the death chamber
That sucks he seemed like a really good guy
The female was to GREEDY and the lawyer paid the price
Lawyers are as corrupt as politicians. Next story
No wonder she wanted a divorce, this guy was clearly a nut already if he could do this. He deserves every day to be miserable in his life from now on but he will get free rent and meals instead.
Marriage nowadays is pretty dangerous.
The guy who’s accused of committing this crime PROBABLY was going to have EVERYTHING taken from him through divorce!
@Greg Wrong, it is not understandable when someone allows themselves to be consumed with hate enough to murder!! He has lost everything NOW. He will spend the rest of his life in prison, he has lost his way, he has lost his very soul. What a sick evil person he showed himself to be.
@Cris that’s what I said DEFINITELY can happen, because I said the SAME thing that this might have happened to the guy who’s accused THIS case
@Jane Clayton you don’t know what that person has been going through, so don’t speculate from too far away! he may be going to jail for the rest of his life, but you don’t know what caused it Definitively
So it’s OK he murdered the attorney?
@Arctic Water I don’t believe in murder. Sorry that you think this is justified somehow.
The way lawyers are, I’m surprised more of them are not murdered. Many of them just do it for the money. Right and wrong make no difference to them.
Some attorneys make already stressful situations much worse, especially when a divorcee wants to “stick it to their exes”. He didn’t go after the lawyer for no reason..
You sound like a horrible person. What you’re doing is victim blaming.
@J DMMG . It’s solving a problem and avoiding one for the next poor feller
Al Bundy
Good for the ex-husband, man lost everything because of him now he aint got nothing!
One of the risks of working in domestic relations law. This sucks. I hope the perp gets what he deserves.
I’ve been following this story! This was a typical money hungry lawyer! Trying to bankrupt a guy! It seems to me that the guy just lost it. Imagine working all your life and having some lawyer trying to force you to pay what you can’t on behalf of a woman that probably was a gold digger herself. Greed can backfire! This is a another prime example
👏💯 My husband’s ex-wife tried to do something along those lines, unfortunately for her I practiced law also. Turns out she slept with her lawyer, and the judge wasn’t too happy with her when I handed him the evidence.
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
Lol
My condolences to his loved ones 😥💔.
May that murderer hate every day the rest of his life.
*I sure hope this feller feels better*
Doing his job. Terrible. My condolences to the family. Should not have happened.
Is it time yet? Is it time to dust off the OL’ GUILLOTINE ? Things are just gonna worse and worse. 😒
After reading the comments, I just have to say shame on those who are blaming the attorney for being murdered by a dangerous man. The whining about women taking men’s stuff is ill informed. Statistically after a divorce a man’s income will actually increase and a women’s typically decreases. The highest percentage of those living in poverty are single mothers. A majority after a divorce. State laws dictate what percentage of income can be paid for child support and/or alimony and most women don’t get alimony. Child support is mostly far less than even half of child care expenses, housing, food, clothing, transportation, medical and entertainment costs of a child.
Fun fact, before child labor laws, men were most often given custody of their children after a divorce. When child labor laws were passed, it shifted to giving women custody. When child support started being seriously enforced, more men started fighting for and were being granted custody. Also, child support and visitation are seperate issues. The only reason a man or women will not be allowed visitation or joint custody is if there is a proven case of abuse or danger to the child.
In this case, this man was absolutely dangerous. Lots of people lose all their stuff for different reasons during their lives. They don’t however murder other people as a result. I’m sure the wife had very good reasons for wanting to divorce that awful man.
I don’t think the money was the biggest issue: in this case, and I don’t want to sound rude, but this was an older male. What chance did he have of finding a new mate? I don’t think it’s always the financial hit that makes these guys go nuts. A lot of times, it’s the (very real) possibility that that is the last chance they will have at mating. From what I have seen, it’s always 40+ guys who pull these stunts. Younger men know they can rebuild the money and probably find another wife. Not making excuses…murder is an insane reaction to a break up. But I think it’s the combo of age and loss.
Feeling empathy for an attorney is useless. I never feel sorry for any of them no matter what. If you do then you’re a pos human being.
Coleen Goodell
In this case, the killer had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. Men get wrecked in these divorces, it’s crippling. Divorce is already hard enough but this lawyer wanted to make it as painful as possible. These lawyers are vermin and they know what they’re doing. Women like you are bootlickers who defend a corrupt system.
@weird innit It was the No Fault divorce thing that created this, IMO. Back in the day (30’s-50’s), sure, you could take off with the kids. But you better be prepared to either work or move back in with your parents. Because a judge wasn’t going to recognize the divorce, nor pull a red cent out of the husband. Once that switched, they saw the money in the water like sharks, and you have what we have now. There was a time when getting a divorce was the most shameful, embarrassing thing in the world. People would stick together through cheating/alcoholism just so as to not look bad. There are obviously some legit divorce cases (Christ even recognizes this in the NT), but it was never meant to be a “I need to find myself” hippie dippie thing you could just execute at will.
Some people can’t wait for justice patiently
Yikes.
My Condolences and prayers to the family
Must have been a great lawyer
Gee, I wonder why she wanted to divorce him 🙄
What a shame they can’t see themselves clearly.
I’m sure she was just an angel, right?
@Greg Well she picked a total loser, so she wasn’t perfect.
Someone should have probably told him that that wouldn’t stop the divorce proceedings
Hey you want to play that game you want to get involved in something like that usually ends up bad you know it sucks you know I just it sucks it’s too bad that he lost his life for doing his f****** job
Nothing like committing felony murder to solve a problem that you could have walked away from.
Walked away with nothing. That isn’t worth it.
lol
Why people go into family law practice is beyond me.
💵
@Chris King
There’s other areas when it comes to money. So don’t get it.
Yeah, it’s crazy that people could have different interests than you, huh? Unbelievable.
@insect warfare
Yeah.
It’s crazy I get to express mine in the comments section.
That’s how it works, Forest.
Know how I know you’ve never been to family court and litigation yet
gave yourself a thumbsup? 😂
Unbelievable indeed.
Most lawyers are in for the money no matter how guilty and wrong the client is this should be a learning lesson to add stay professional
You’re literally just making random assumptions about a guy who was murdered.
Ok jus saying not convicted neither party just facts
@Jake From state farm stop jumping to random conclusions with nothing to back it up.
Moral of the story: don’t get married. Don’t even date. You have two hands ✋🤚
Dating is probably ok…..But maybe not.
Well, don’t pick the wrong person to marry!!! if you marry your best friend and the one who has your back and you treat that person the way you want to be treated, you will have a wonderful marriage. Mandatory pre-marital counselling classes should be a prerequisite to any marriage, that way you find out lots of red flags before jumping into anything.
Why are so many men lately taking a few people with them when they off themselves? It’s beyond selfish and cowardly. So many wives, kids, grandparents, and now divorce attorney killed by an unhinged individual in last couple weeks.
A man gets screwed so bad during divorce basically has nothing left so screw it
When did women becomes so PURE?
Our society is so one sided in the US if half the divorces didn’t end in murder that would be a travesty.
Another abuser murders those who helped his victim escaped.
Sad sad story .
Condolences to the victim’s family
Oh well. Be a little more fair when it comes to men in divorce cases and men won’t go crazy
to be honest im surprised that this doesnt happen more offen. that being said sad that this happens at all
How is he gonna get mad at the lawyer for doing his job?
Maybe find another line of work? One where you aren’t destroying lives?
@Greg how’s that destroying lives if two people can’t agree on divorce and who gets what lol the wife hired him for a reason and it’s obvious the husband has a narcissistic ego from how he killed the lawyer because his wife wanted to leave him
No wonder she wanted a divorce.
The men in these these comments are bitter and evil crying somebody took my stuff and they were probably terrible husbands husbands
I bet you’d just love it if someone took half your stuff. Working hard your whole life and then the courts just take everything. Seems fair.
So sad
Seems like a legitimate reason?
A legitimate reason to spend the rest of his life married to his prison cell mate.
This is crazy man
I guess the perp took Shakespeare seriously. A horrible tragedy guy just doing his job.
Nothing more american than this story….convinced out of 300m people that 150m of them are murderous psychopaths. Only thing missing is a jesus fish on the murderers pickup truck.
He’s a divorce lawyer.
Guarantee he deserved it.
Yep.👍
What a waste of space that murderer is. No wonder his wife wanted out.
Sore loser kills lawyer who was defending his wife. No prizes for guessing which political persuasion he follows. The sore loser party
Well I guess this guy thought killing was better than a divorce but now he will live his life in prison.
Condolences 💐
Dangerous profession. I wouldn’t touch it. Also, don’t get legally married, makes a split easier.
Not being married legally does basically nothing. these days common law means you are just like being married in most places.
Sad and avoidable outcome. Divorce laws can easily be changed to make it less painful. The person who files for divorce gives half their net worth to their former partner and if they both agree to the divorce they go their separate ways without gaining anything from each other. Easy peasy.
Agreed maybe law needs to be changed. In this case the wife filed for divorce…got half of his pension benefit..the husband had to pay her 135,000 for the house…pay her 500$ a month alimony and pay her lawyers fee.
So it’s OK the angry husband murdered his wife’s attorney?
@GoGreen1977 no murder is never justified. Don’t have the answer. Just that the ruling seemed a bit harsh and maybe pushed the man to the edge.
@GoGreen1977 Not at all, but you wouldn’t like it either if the person who just dumped you hired an attorney to take half your stuff, would you? Obviously the laws are outdated and nuts and result in sometimes extreme but predictable behavior.
Al from Married with children
Wow. No wonder she divorced him. He’s a dangerous individual.
So sorry
OMG it’s just horrendous what happened to the innocent guy it’s nobody fault that he was a lsr it’s way his wife was going to divorce him .way people want others to pay for their mistakes .just ridiculous my condolences to the attorney family
Wtf, he dun murder the lawyer and set da office on fire!! Only in the movies SMH!! My condolences to everyone!!
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@Chanal Adams
how can i reach him?
@Diamond Ray Look him up on the web, you can reach him through his personal site
Demon. Exterminate it immediately. Next
Payback’s a b****,. About time somebody evened the score with this BS they do for the POOR women all the time.
He probably was taking the man for everything he had smh but the ex husband should’ve just killed himself if he wanted to hurt somebody 🤷🏾♂️
Never get married. Problem solved.
Our condolences to the families and friends, May God Bless you with courage and strength in this difficult time 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Poor family
Man. The loss of a divorce lawyer. What a loss.
Until you need one!!
Reporter : I’ll do my best to sound like Lionel Hutz on this one.
I guess it’s not good to plot with a woman on another man’s wealth. Even if it pays .
As you can see, this man is dangerous and not safe to be around. Not every woman who chose divorce is after money… She was probably trying to leave an abusive relationship.
😂😂😂
Thank you for talking about him as a person
Enough of men getting screwed
Sick. Sincere sympathies to all his loved ones and friends. I expect the murderer will be spending the rest of his life in prison as he should. Good that he’s in custody, cause he might have gone after his soon-to-be EX wife.
He was just doing his job
I dont know, Lawyers theyre the worst , thats why lawyers jokes are mostly about them dying. and I know a friend’s experience with a lawyer , setting up useless appointments so they can charge him more and my friend didnt know that he was being taken advantage of.
Lawyer killings much more to come? C’mon, totally foreseeable.. esp when family law is sticking it up men’s aholes, I’m just surprised he didn’t take care of his ex wife with the lawyer 😂
Gestapo NBC loves chaos
shouldnt he have shot his wife instead?
Why? Just curious.
Thank god
There’s a saying that goes, “if you want to know what type of person you married, see how they act in a divorce.”
This is horrible! And my sincerest condolences to the victims family.
Most nicest aspiring divorce attorney? Makes sense
Lawyers are highly educated, but they are not MORAL. They’re motivated strictly by money, and what they do with that money is nobody’s business. Transparency in the legal system doesn’t exist.
Its called *SECURITY* You’re a *Lawyer* Why on earth would you be in your office *ALONE*
He must have felt he was losing the case.
I guess he won’t be trying to hold his client’s ex in contempt for $30k in unpaid attorney fees any longer. Greed is a MFer. 😆😆😆
Omg how awful for his family it’s almost Christmas what a horrible horrible thing to do to someone just because of a divorce ‼️ I hope he get’s EVERYTHING HE HAS COMING TO HIM FOR HIS SENSELESS ACT ‼️💯 Prayer’s for his family at this heartbreaking time 😢 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Maybe if they didn’t ALWAYS try to totally destroy ex-husbandd.
yeah, definitely looks like a guy that would do that.
I’m actually shocked that more attorneys aren’t murdered daily given the profession.
Courts & the Legal System: “We aren’t proactive. *We’re reactive”.*
They’re only reactive when there’s dead bodies or blood in their hands, but even then do they ever really care?
More guns for insane people should help. Ugh, America is gross.
This is terrible. I live very close to where this happened. Having gone through a divorce I do know how contentious they can be but shooting one of the attorneys is unconscionable.
One less person destroying families in the US.
Here’s what happened, he was upset and wanted some satisfaction, but “ppl” being what they are, when he got there, the ppl, thought they had seen enough Netflix and crime videos of “victim turns the tables”
, I don’t think “ppl” understand real life anymore, they don’t really live anymore, they live through the screen, and put themselves as center of their story, even if they aren’t more than a background player to someone else’s story….
In other words, you “ppl” say the dummest things as a way of being, and that’s what happened here.
He didn’t go there intending do all that happened, but no one showed the situation any respect, didn’t believe real life wasn’t for them.
And then he set it on fire. Because, he didn’t Know what to do, because, again, this was supposed to be in and out thing..he was expecting probation 😅until,….she probably said, in that, I’m a woman and therefore know something tone:
“You *need* to *leave!”
Kinda like Jack Reacher at a Attorney’s office, these ppl don’t get it…but it reveals…they were living a lie…they never “got it.”
And you probably thought no one could see your sad attempts to fool Everyone…and became a divorce attorney.🦊🚬Fin.
Doug was consummate gentleman 🤣I’m sure, I’m sure……
Can’t help everybody.
Just cause you murder someone doesn’t mean your wrong.
I’m kinda surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
People in abusive relationships risk the lives of those around them.
Society no longer understands what a Marriage is anymore. Just like Society no longer considers a High School Diploma a Special achievement.
The crazy gun violence, not even the lawyer of a client is safe. The lawyer was not divorcing the suspect, the wife of the suspect was getting a divorce. Sounds like she may have had good reason.