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The victims, aged 12, 13, 15 and 17, were shot by their mother Tonya Thomas at their house in Brevard County, 15 miles from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre.
A neighbour told police that three of the children had banged on his door shortly before 5am on Tuesday before Thomas, 33, ordered them home.
Originally posted by TruthxIsxInxThexMist
Just what is happening in this World?
Too much of this stuff goes on... i'm pretty sure over the last week i've read three similar stories to this one.
What is it that makes one want to kill their own children and then themselves?
Why dont they seek help?
Why not just top yourself and leave the children alone?
I have a theory for the last question and that is maybe the person doing the killing doesnt want their children to experience the same life that they had or they dont want their children growing up in such a World where this type of thing happens... i don't know but i'm stumped as to why we hear alot of this stuff happening of late.
news.sky.com
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Originally posted by TruthxIsxInxThexMist
reply to post by Cyanhide
I know... i am in Europe!!
England to be precise!!
I remember a Film i've seen where this type of thing was happening... just cant rember the title of the Film!!
Originally posted by one_small_step
You need a little help, just ask for it - you will be helped. - You are not alone.
A neighbour told police that three of the children had banged on his door shortly before 5am on Tuesday before Thomas, 33, ordered them home.
Originally posted by HumanitiesLastHope
Originally posted by TruthxIsxInxThexMist
reply to post by Cyanhide
I know... i am in Europe!!
England to be precise!!
I remember a Film i've seen where this type of thing was happening... just cant rember the title of the Film!!
I think the film your thinking of is "The Happening".
Dispatch records released Tuesday show that authorities responded to Thomas' house on three successive days in April.
In the first visit, on Easter Sunday, Thomas reported that her son had thrown a bicycle through a window at the house. The next day, Thomas called to report that her son had kicked and punched her when she tried to wake him up for school. The following day, child welfare investigators visited the house to look into allegations of inadequate supervision of the children.
Records also showed that Thomas was arrested in 2002 on a misdemeanor battery charge for striking the father of her children. The charge was later dropped. Two years earlier, she filed a domestic violence complaint against Joe Johnson, but that was dismissed after a hearing.
Jamie Hudson, whose mother lives two doors down from the family, said the boys in the family were known to shoot BBs at a home across the street and had threatened to set it on fire.
Originally posted by jeantherapy
Has anyone heard anything about her prescriptions? I can almost guarantee she was on paxil or zoloft or prozac.
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Originally posted by TheGrandWarlock
Originally posted by ldyserenity
Children banging at the door at that time in the morning screams of urgency, no kid is up at the crack of dawn, you obviously don't have children, they like to sleep A LOT any kid up at the crack of dawn is up only because of school and wouldnt' be running to neighbors' banging on their doors unless something was wrong, I'd venture a guess that the other two were killed (the first two) while asleep. Children are not early risers as teenagers. What really surprises me is how the nighbor didn't hear the gunfire till after the children left that neighbor, I call BS. He heard those other shots. HE HAD TO.edit on 16-5-2012 by ldyserenity because: spelling
lol WHAT. im pretty sure theres kids who wake up at dawn, you obviously love to believe you're always right even when youre guessing. the only thing that bothers me about your responses is that you want him to be punished for not doing what you think was right.
its a sad world indeed.
I think the neighbor gave this lady the gun....
Knew what she was going to do..
OR
To much of a wuss to get involved.
Why else would you tell 3 kid's BLEEDING of gunshot
wounds to go back home??
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Originally posted by TheGrandWarlock
A neighbour told police that three of the children had banged on his door shortly before 5am on Tuesday before Thomas, 33, ordered them home.
The neighbor ordered bleeding kid's back home?
Why is this guy not in jail??
I heard it over the radio but i did not
realize he practiacally hand in hand
led them to their graves..edit on 16-5-2012 by popsmayhem because: (no reason given)
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...deputies had responded to the house for domestic complaints previously.
Jamie Hudson, whose mother lives two doors down from the family, said the boys in the family were known to shoot BBs at a home across the street and had threatened to set it on fire.
"It has been an ongoing problem on our street with them," Hudson said.
Goodyear said Jaxs Johnson had recently been arrested on a domestic violence charge. He said he didn't know if the boy had been accused of hitting his mother or causing damage at the house.
A pastor at the church the family attended described it as "normal stuff."
"I think he was punching some walls or something," said Jarvis Wash, pastor of the Real Church in Rockledge, Fla.
Wash said the family attended services last Sunday but had been absent for a few weeks before that.
"I don't know what could have happened in the past couple of days," Wash said. "It's a tragedy to the church and the community.".