'My husband just shot me,' wounded Springdale woman tells 911

The 911 call Friday from a Springdale Township home was chilling: A woman named Judy described how her husband had shot her in the stomach then put the gun under his chin and pulled the trigger, according to court papers.

“My husband just shot me,” Judy told the operator. “He’s in the basement. … I think he killed himself.”

After a few more questions, she said she couldn’t talk anymore, according to a description of the call by police, who listened to the recorded conversation.

It was 5:10 p.m., shortly after sunset. Officers raced to the three-bedroom house on Thompson Run Road, where they found the couple grievously wounded.

Judy – Judith Mishler, 58 – drifted in and out of consciousness, suffering from a gut shot. Her husband, Scott A. Mishler, 65, lay unresponsive in the basement, shot in the face. A revolver lay at his feet, police said.

Both were taken to different area hospitals, where each underwent surgery.

Allegheny County police charged Scott Mishler with attempted homicide and aggravated assault. As of Saturday, he was still awaiting arraignment.

Now detectives — and the Mishlers’ family — are trying to unravel what exactly happened and why.

One of their two daughters, Emily Davis, 36, of Library, said Saturday she was still trying to figure out what transpired.

“It’s too early to speculate,” said Davis. She was waiting for her parents to recover enough to speak to detectives.

“It looks like they’re going to pull through,” Davis said.

While Davis declined to guess at the circumstances behind the shooting, she said, “One party was definitely not willing.”

Police scouring the house for evidence found 11 spent cartridge casings on the living room floor above the basement.

They also turned up four handguns and a gallon of Captain Morgan rum in the basement. A blood trail led from the basement and up the steps to the kitchen, according to the criminal complaint against Mishler.

Investigators counted 11 bullet holes in various parts of the house — in the kitchen cabinets, the basement steps and the dishwasher. They recovered a slug from the appliance.

The complaint did not indicate a potential motive for the shooting. Neither of the Mishlers was able to speak to detectives.

Davis confirmed her father had once run the Holy Smokes! Cafe, a barbecue restaurant that operated out of a church.

A 2013 Trib story noted the cafe had served an Easter dinner in the basement of Central Presbyterian Church in Tarentum, part of the business’s efforts to offer donation-only Sunday meals.

Davis said her father had been a paramedic and had a nursing degree. His LinkedIn profile said he worked for the City of Pittsburgh as a paramedic from 1979 to 1992.

State records show Mishler had been a registered nurse since 1992 but asked to have his license revoked in 2010 after pleading no contest two years earlier in Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court to charges of indecent assault and furnishing liquor to a minor.

The state nursing board agreed to his request.

Court records contained in the revocation record show that in May 2008, Mishler sexually assaulted a then-20-year-old friend of Davis’ after plying her with hard liquor at a party at his brother’s business in Latrobe.

Mishler confessed and said he had carried out the vile acts after his wife had left — and while his daughter slept next to her friend on an air mattress, according to a criminal complaint.

Mishler was sentenced to electronic monitoring and “intense supervision” for up to two years, according to State Board of Nursing records.

Shortly after that crime, in December 2008, Mishler launched his church-affiliated cafe, according to LinkedIn.