May something good from something bad.

May the death of a beautiful person, bring many good things to those who are left behind.

We will miss you Maria, and look for the day when we join you in that place in the sky.

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Maria Djelaj said, "I'm afraid he is going to kill me." On her request for a personal protection order March 10. Nine days later, she was dead, shot and killed by the man she feared -- her husband.

Djerdj Djelaj, 46, gunned down his wife then turned the gun on himself and were found dead in a parking lot at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church, Shelby Township Police Detective Terry Hogan said. Before he did, police said, he called the couple's two adult children and said good-bye. The young adults -- one turned 18 recently -- found their parents' bodies and called 911.

"Sadly, I'm not surprised," said Roberta Sarkis, the Mt. Clemens lawyer who was representing Maria Djelaj in her divorce. Sarkis appeared in court March 10 with Maria Djelaj, 38, and her father, Kola Gjolaj. Both filed for protection orders after the hearing, on Sarkis' advice. In the request, Maria Djelaj wrote of a Sept. 16 incident that resulted in a domestic violence charge against her husband of 21 years, but a district judge acquitted him in December. She also said that on March 4, her husband "came straight in my face and said I will break every bone in your body," she wrote in the petition. And she said that on June 30, he beat her so severely she needed stitches in her head. "Over the years, he has threatened me and my children," she wrote. The protection order requests were denied the next day by Circuit Judge Antonio Viviano, who was set to handle the couple's divorce trial in May." Found in the article, Free Press, BY AMBER HUNT • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • March 21, 2008