• Mom kills her children, herself at Florida home
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Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/justice/florida-bodies/index.html?hpt=hp_t1[/url] [quote]A Florida mother shot her four children early Tuesday morning before turning the gun on herself at her home in Port St. John, police said. A neighbor heard shots at 4:50 a.m. and then responded to a knock at the door to find three of the children. The mother, Tanya Thomas, 33, called them back home, Brevard County Sheriff's Office Lt. Tod Goodyear told reporters. Deputies arrived at the house several minutes later to hear more shots fired. They discovered Thomas's eldest daughter, Pebbles Johnson, 17, wounded in the front yard. They drove a patrol car onto the lawn in an attempt to rescue her. Johnson was rushed to hospital but died from her wounds, Goodyear said. The other children -- Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13, and Jaxs Johnson,15 -- were all dead, as was Thomas. No suicide note was found in the home, but Goodyear said a witness told police he received a text from Thomas at about 3 a.m. that said she wanted to be cremated with the children. "Unfortunately he did not see that text or read it on his phone until he woke up this morning ... well after the incident occurred," Goodyear said. The children's father does not live with the family and Goodyear said he was distraught. Goodyear said police do not have a motive. He said authorities have received previous calls from Thomas' home pertaining to domestic violence. Goodyear said he was having a hard time trying to understand how a mother could commit such a grisly act. He said she remained very calm when she called the children back to their house. "I cannot comprehend as a parent doing this to their children ... calling them back in and shooting them," he said. He said authorities have not yet determined the owner of then gun but they are pretty certain Thomas was the killer. "Everything points to it being her."[/quote] Fuck...day ruined.
Temporary insanity?
[QUOTE=mac338;35969511]Temporary insanity?[/QUOTE] Not a excuse for killing your children.
God, I'm so mad at the shitheads who kill their children first then kill themselves.
i dont get it, why is it needed to kill your own children? because somethings wrong in your head that drives you to suicide you need to take your children with you?
we had seven of these last year
It pisses me off when the parents kill their children first. They shouldn't be part of whatever insane suicide plans you're making, let them have a damn chance to live a life.
I feel awful for the father.
Fucking Cowardly.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;35970883]It pisses me off when the parents kill their children first.[/QUOTE] It pisses me off when people kill children, period.
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;35970962]Yeah they should totally kill themselves first, and then the children second.. It pisses me off when people kill children, period.[/QUOTE] I think he meant it more as first (before killing themselves) rather than just killing themselves. I'm thinking it's usually because they don't want their children to grow up in an orphanage or whatever crazy reason, but any life is better than no life.
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;35970962]Yeah they should totally kill themselves first, and then the children second.. It pisses me off when people kill children, period.[/QUOTE] I think he means it in the sense of the mothers life being so bad that she somehow felt the need to take her children down with her for whatever pathetic reason she had. I could be wrong though. [editline]15th May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;35970990]I think he meant it more as first (before killing themselves) rather than just killing themselves. I'm thinking it's usually because they don't want their children to grow up in an orphanage or whatever crazy reason, but any life is better than no life.[/QUOTE] Lol you beat me to it.
[QUOTE=Justjake274;35970917]I feel awful for the father.[/QUOTE] It must be a strange situation for him, because he probably isn't mourning is wife, he probably resents her after this.
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;35970962][I]Yeah they should totally kill themselves first, and then the children second..[/I] It pisses me off when people kill children, period.[/QUOTE] Okay, cool, but that's not what he's saying. He's saying he'd rather have people take themselves out, than do damage to others first.
She must have hated her children an awful lot. No loving parent would ever do this.
probably a nutcase, planned on killing herself and done the insane parent reasoning of 'THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY LIVE WITHOUT THEIR MOTHER'
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;35969668]God, I'm so mad at the shitheads who kill their children first then kill themselves.[/QUOTE] Sorry to sound insensitive, but isn't it impossible to do it the other way round?
[QUOTE=Secrios;35972233]Sorry to sound insensitive, but isn't it impossible to do it the other way round?[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;xECUrlnXCqk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk[/video]
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;35971029]It must be a strange situation for him, because he probably isn't mourning is wife, he probably resents her after this.[/QUOTE] They were divorced. I bet he wishes she was alive just so he could have a few hours to mutilate her...
[QUOTE=mac338;35969511]Temporary insanity?[/QUOTE] There is a history of domestic violence at that house, going back to 2002. That doesn't rule out temporary insanity of course, but it also supports the idea that this wasn't the most stable household to start with. Violence was not unknown there.
Are you fucking kidding me. I hope the devil goes in dry.
[QUOTE=Van-man;35969588]Not a excuse for killing your children.[/QUOTE] he never said it was excuse=/=explanation
I find it shocking at how old the kids were. Usually when you hear these stories the kids are usually 7 or under but as old as 15 and 17? Just damn. I would hate my mom so fucking much for ever thinking of taking me with her. Regardless of age though, this is still pretty fucked up.
[QUOTE]A neighbor heard shots at 4:50 a.m. and then [b]responded to a knock at the door to find three of the children, police said.[/b] The three children went to the neighbor's house to say their mother had shot them, Brevard County Sheriff's Office Lt. Tod Goodyear said, according to CNN affiliate WKMG. The mother, Tanya Thomas, 33, [b]then called them back home, Brevard County Sheriff's Office Lt. Tod Goodyear told reporters.[/b][/QUOTE] Isn't anybody else reading this and wondering how the fuck it happened?
It depends what the mom said to call them back. "Come back or I'm killing your brother" or something like that might make them go back.
[QUOTE=Splarg!;35973624]Isn't anybody else reading this and wondering how the fuck it happened?[/QUOTE] Yeah, it wasn't reported on well. Big surprise there...
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;35972179]She must have hated her children an awful lot. No loving parent would ever do this.[/QUOTE] I dunno; in some warped way she might have thought it would be better for them not to have to live with the grief of their mother committing suicide. Still seems kind of selfish though.
[QUOTE=TMBGFan;35977183]I dunno; in some warped way she might have thought it would be better for them not to have to live with the grief of their mother committing suicide. Still seems kind of selfish though.[/QUOTE] Maybe she thought whatever it is she killed herself over was just as bad or worse for her kids?
Here's something that may surprise some of you guys. When people are insane, their actions don't always follow any kind of logic anybody else would understand. The dishwasher might have talked her into it. She's dead, so we'll never know. [editline]a bit later[/editline] I just noticed that this was my 2.5Kth post. A momentous occasion in any young man's life.
Something tells me that this woman was a poor, single mother who couldn't live with the pressure of feeding four hungry mouths. And I don't blame her, she was a victim of something else just as much as her kids were victims of their mother.
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