# Local high school senior dead in murder-suicide **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233 "2013-04-09T15:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/1 "2013-04-09T15:55:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Police say 31-year-old Staff Sgt. Adam Anthony Arndt shot Michelle Miller and fatally shot himself inside his Pinnacle Drive home. [From the WTOP News](http://wtop.com/52/3279344/Dad-She-was-little-smitten-with-this-guy) story. Obviously this is too soon to have all the details, and I hesitate to offer an opinion before all the facts are in. I still feel impelled to say, though, that at least an outline of the story sort of writes itself: > [@](#): > > The victims knew each other because of Miller’s plans to enlist in the Army Reserves following graduation from high school. > > Arndt had been assigned to coordinate Miller’s entry into the Reserves, and her father has said his daughter was a “little smitten with this guy.” Kevin Miller said his daughter left their Rockville home Sunday night, saying somebody in her platoon was suicidal. And an especially useless codicil: > [@](#): > > Army recruiters are barred from having personal relationships with recruits. What a crying shame. A seventeen year old with a promising future, gone. ---
**Author:** ![EverwonderWhy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EverwonderWhy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EverwonderWhy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/2 "2013-04-09T18:21:00Z")
Your link doesn’t work, but what a tragic story. I wonder what his motive was? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/3 "2013-04-10T01:24:19Z")
> [@EverwonderWhy](#): > > Your link doesn’t work, but what a tragic story. I wonder what his motive was? Link works for me - the headline is deceiving, though. > [@](#): > > Police: Goodbye text sent to friend from teen’s cellphone > WASHINGTON - A goodbye text message was sent from the phone of a Maryland teen who died in an apparent murder-suicide, Montgomery County police tell WTOP. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/4 "2013-04-10T14:37:29Z")
And now the headline is: > [@](#): > > \*\* > Staff sergeant in Md. murder-suicide was married to another Army recruit\*\* > A U.S. Army recruiter who police say shot and killed a 17-year-old Rockville High School student before killing himself was married to another Army recruit who enlisted at the center where he worked. ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/5 "2013-04-10T14:48:59Z")
A psycho in the US army rather than being given health care and support he needs? Colour me shocked! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/6 "2013-04-10T16:14:12Z")
Not sure what you mean by “rather than” - if I am not mistaken, the Army provides health care for its soldiers. Although you are probably correct that a recruiter who wants to screw his enlistees is not going to get a lot of support. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/7 "2013-04-11T03:39:36Z")
I think what _newcomer_ means is that psychiatric problems are generally not admitted. They are covered up or denied as far as possible. (Cite is my 6 years of army experience.) Sure, the army provides health care; but for psychosis you are blackballed for advancement. If you don’t advance in rank, you are separated. You are correct in saying that a person in a superior position messing with a subordinate would not be tolerated. He would be court martialed. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/8 "2013-04-11T10:10:07Z")
Did he serve in Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-senior-dead-in-murder-suicide/655233/9 "2013-05-16T14:49:33Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Did he serve in Iraq? Turkey, South Korea and Germany but not Iraq, apparently: > **[Army Recruiter In Murder-Suicide Had Relationship With Teen Victim](https://www.ibtimes.com/adam-arndt-army-recruiter-who-shot-killed-teen-michelle-miller-murder-suicide-reportedly-had-1183359)** > > It's unclear how they met, but Army Staff Sgt. Adam Arndt and Michelle Miller were romantically linked. > **['Smitten' Army reservist, 17, shot dead by recruiter when she rushed to his...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306566/Michelle-Miller-Army-reservist-smitten-recruiter-Adam-Arndt-killed-her.html)** > > Police say that Staff Sgt Adam Arndt, 31, killed himself at his Germantown, Maryland, home on Monday morning, but not before he shot and killed one of his recruits, high school student Michelle Miller. [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083\_162-57578862-504083/army-recruiter-murder-suicide-michelle-millers-father-says-teen-tried-to-help-her-alleged-killer-adam-arndt/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57578862-504083/army-recruiter-murder-suicide-michelle-millers-father-says-teen-tried-to-help-her-alleged-killer-adam-arndt/)