Jacqueline Carey

Jacqueline Nicole Carey was a mother whose life centered on her family and home in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Known in local reports as the mother of six children ranging from toddlers to teens, Jacqueline’s place in her family’s daily life was defining; those who spoke publicly after her death remembered the central role she held in her household and community.

Public records and contemporaneous news coverage show Jacqueline was at a family gathering in Uniontown on the evening of November 4, 2016. She had gone to a window in her sister’s home when she was struck and was taken to Uniontown Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. While reportage of the event necessarily recorded the circumstances of her passing, the details that endure in the public record are of a woman who was a parent first and whose loss left a husband and children to carry forward without her.

After Jacqueline’s death, her husband, named in reports as Richard Schoch, was left to care for their six children. Local coverage described the family’s grief and the practical difficulties that followed, including funeral needs and the emotional strain of upcoming holidays without her. For weeks the family awaited developments in the criminal investigation; later court records indicate that criminal charges were brought in connection with the shooting and that a defendant ultimately entered a guilty plea in 2020. These documents and news stories establish the factual timeline, but they do not capture the quiet, everyday ways Jacqueline mattered to her family.

Public sources do not provide a wide array of personal details such as employment history, schooling, or private remembrances published by a funeral home. Because the available record focuses on the aftermath of her death, this remembrance emphasizes what is verifiable: Jacqueline was a mother whose absence changed a household and whose family sought to remember and care for one another after a sudden loss. Her children and husband were named in reports as those closest to her; the community’s response — from neighbors, local media, and family friends who spoke at the time — shows she was part of a network of family ties and everyday relationships.

Though the public record is limited, Jacqueline Nicole Carey’s life can be honored by acknowledging the central role she played in her family and the lasting void her passing created. This page is intended to recognize Jacqueline as a person first — a mother and family member whose life mattered beyond the tragic circumstances of her death — and to offer a quiet, respectful remembrance of the human life the community lost on November 4, 2016.