OH - Spencer and Monique Tepe found shot to death at home 2 children unharmed, Columbus, 30 December 2025 *ex-husband arrested*

[Covert Operative]

Even with a suppressor, a 9mm is still fairly loud and requires hearing protection. Source: I've fired several different firearms with suppressors.

Have you fired one inside a home that is kind of like the proximity of those homes to each other. I feel it would be somewhat hard to hear that in another house, especially if asleep but I have never done that so I could be way off.

 

[STLBlues]

Have you fired one inside a home that is kind of like the proximity of those homes to each other. I feel it would be somewhat hard to hear that in another house, especially if asleep but I have never done that so I could be way off.

No, I have not. Only at an indoor shooting range.

ETA - I would imagine you are correct about hearing in a neighboring house. I

 

[Cassie P]

To my understanding, no. A hate crime is typically defined as occurring when someone is targeted for being part of a group -- singled out and killed for being a person of color or LGBTQ+, etc. -- not just when someone is killed because someone hates them.

I thought so, but wondered if there was a provision for targeting women. Most female murder victims are killed by males.

Maybe women should be a protected class against male violence.

 

[Covert Operative]

No, I have not. Only at an indoor shooting range.

ETA - I would imagine you are correct about hearing in a neighboring house. I

With neighbors sleeping or some noise in their house possibly going on at the time, it may just sound like a musted shot if they heard anything. That many shots if heard even faintly by someone, may raise some type of suspicion though. Might not be enough that anyone considered it was a gun being shot in the house.

I know of a case that a homemade silencer/suppressor was used to murder two people in a house in two different bedrooms (average size house) and the person in a 3rd bed room did not even wake up in the same house. There were multiple shots also in that case. That person was also killed after the other 2 people had been killed.