When I first heard about this,( it was from Steve's ex, not a news report, so I didn't have many details), and I thought it was a sure bet that he would claim, "accidental shooting". There was a gun in the home. The relationship was troubled. I thought for sure, he was going to go with the, "We were arguing, and she got her gun out, struggled, it went off... Or even she was cleaning it, or had it out for whatever reason, and she (or he), accidentally fired it. Only after reading that it was declared a homicide, (instantly, pretty much), did I realize that she was, most likely, not shot at close range. (suicide was never even considered, that would have to mean, from distance factors, that she could not have shot herself).
Now the pieces are coming together for me, and it is looking like he had a plan, months in advance. But it's such a BAD plan, it almost makes me wonder, if he was prepared to carry this through on THIS night... I wonder if he might have been"rehearsing", ( so to speak), for the actual day he planned to do this, and then just did it. He definitely doesn't seem to have been prepared, AT ALL. and I don't know, you would think he would be, with all he had at stake... Could he have spent all that time planning...to have NO plan?