Scroll down for video The ex-wife of suspected killer Ron Lee Haskell – who fled her abusive and violent husband after 11 years of marriage - believes she has paid the ‘ultimate price for freedom’, her former divorce lawyer told MailOnline. Al Barker, the lawyer who represented Melanie Lyon in her divorce from Haskell, revealed she made the heart-breaking statement to family members after discovering her ex had slaughtered six of her relatives in cold blood. Melanie's sister Katie Stay, brother-in-law Stephen and four of their young children were gunned down at their Texas home on Wednesday. Melanie Lyon Haskell, pictured here with then-husband Ronald and the couple's three children is in 'shock' over the massacre. Al Barker, her former lawyer who became good friends with her, said: 'I just hope other victims (of domestic violence) don¿t look at her case and think,"this could happen to me"'
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Police in Houston, Texas, arrested 33-year-old Haskell Wednesday night after a tense stand-off at a suburban cul-de-sac
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He is charged with shooting dead six members of the same family
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Haskell and his wife Melanie Kaye Haskell were married in 2002 in California
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Melanie feels she's 'paid the ultimate price for freedom', her divorce lawyer Al Barker told MailOnline, adding: 'But I felt terrible because it is not her fault'
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Lone survior, Cassidy Stay, 15, was released from hospital today
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A bullet grazed her head and she played dead until Haskell left
‘I asked her how Melanie was doing and she told me that @placeholder was in shock over what happened.’