Shannon Michele Buchler was born on December 21, 1972, and died at the hands of her abuser on January 26, 2022

My beautiful, loving, big-hearted daughter Shannon Michele was shot and killed by her fiancé in a domestic incident.  Her oldest granddaughter, also shot now suffers from paralysis of her lower body. 

While I have returned home from the moments of surrounding these many broken hearts, my grief engulfs me.  I can only take it one moment at a time to ride the wave of tears and heart break.  

This takes me back to the many conversations I have had when she called me in hysterics because her abuser was badgering her with all the things he thought she had done wrong.  He had day-in and day-out verbal taunts about the conspiracy theories running through his head, constant rants about money ( he had plenty from a recent accident) about her grown children, the little ones she cared for if the did anything wrong, or if the house wasn’t cleaned enough for him.  He cut her off from all her friends and even her children.  She had two jobs she loved but he forced her to quit and stay home.  It crushed her even more.  

My red flags were going off everywhere.  I begged her to leave.  She wouldn’t.  Over the years, she had finally built a home for those 6 kids, and she would not take them back on the street with nothing again.  

Thank you all for this moment to share my Daughter Shannon Michele Buchler’s Story and the pain I am in from this tragic heartbreak.