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Within a one-week period in October 2012, a beauty parlor in Wisconsin and one in Florida both turned into bloody crime scenes after gunmen who apparently were enraged at their estranged spouses opened fire at the salons where their wives worked. In suburban Milwaukee, the armed man killed three salon employees, including his estranged wife who recently had obtained a restraining order after reporting domestic abuse. A few days earlier, another gunman had opened fire at a salon in suburban Orlando, killing three women and wounding a fourth, his wife.
