Friday, August 5, 2016

Woman Charged with Killing Husband Thursday Afternoon

(08/05/16) A Kline Township woman has been charged with killing her husband Thursday afternoon.

According to sources Jane Schreiner, 69, of Kline Township, near McAdoo admitted to shooting her husband Kenneth Schreiner, 56, in the chest around 3:00PM Thursday afternoon

Shreiner admitted she had threatened her husband's life in the past and told police the couple had been arguing in the home about her family.

Shreiner then reportedly pulled out the gun from the nightstand, and shot her husband while he was sitting at the kitchen table

Jane Schreiner was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge James Reilly and has been charged with criminal homicide, voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated assault and is now locked up in the Schuylkill County Prison without bail.