So nice to give a cop killer's wife a puff news piece - Michelle Schumacher, a Fargo resident, remembers the struggles of her late husband Marcus Schumacher who fatally shot Fargo police officer Jason Moszer before being killed by police
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FARGO — Today, Michelle and Marcus Schumacher would have marked their 29th wedding anniversary. Instead, she's left with the memory of her last hours with him on the night of Feb. 10, just before he barricaded himself inside their northside home during a domestic incident and allegedly fired at Fargo police officer Jason Moszer in an alley, fatally wounding him. Marcus also died in the standoff.
Michelle says Marcus had been falling down a deep hole of mental health problems, which likely contributed to his actions that night and put tremendous strain on their relationship. Though she knew she should get out of the marriage, she didn't.
"I can't abandon him," Michelle said during an hours-long interview last week. "I said 'I do' and I meant it forever."
A few hours before the shooting, Michelle says Marcus was quiet and emotionless, almost "flat."
He'd picked her up from work -- her third day at a new job -- and she immediately wondered if he was OK.
"Yeah, I'm fine, Angel, I'm fine," Michelle said he told her.
But he wasn't fine. Marcus had been seasonally laid off from his longtime job building cellphone towers. He was doing temp work and had another full-time job lined up, Michelle said, but that wouldn't start for several weeks. He told her the only way for them to survive financially was for him to travel to another tower job in the interim, but she wouldn't have it.
"If you go back on the road, I won't be here anymore," she told him.
Michelle wanted Marcus to stay put because of worsening memory loss, anxiety, depression and his more-frequent fits of rage, and she didn't want him to miss his upcoming appointments with medical specialists.
Once home, she went upstairs to rest and he stepped in the shower, but the argument continued afterward. She told him she'd deleted a text on his phone about a potential new job on the road, and his anger ratcheted up. She remembers him running down to the basement, where he kept a pellet gun hidden in the rafters, and running back up.
The rest, Michelle said, "is all mushy in my head, because it was so scary."
Lying on the bed, she heard a "poof" of air and saw him holding what she believes was the pellet gun, aimed just above her, at the wall. Then he stood over her, screaming.
"The next one is going in your head if you don't get the f*** out of here!" Michelle recalls him saying.
"He'd never said anything like that to me before, ever," she said, crying. "And I was so scared, I didn't know what to do."
Michelle told the couple's two sons, ages 20 and 21, to get out and instructed the youngest to call 911. Instead, he called his 27-year-old sister, who told him to call police. Michelle didn't fear for their safety, she said, because every bit of Marcus' anger was directed at her.
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