The mother who shot her two daughters dead in the street outside their Texas home committed the horrific crime to “punish” her husband.
Christy Sheets killed daughters Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17, on Friday after arguing with her husband Jason, family friend Madison Davey told local TV station KTRK.
Davey said Christy and Jason had argued on Thursday, prompting Christy to call a family meeting on Friday afternoon.
When Jason and the girls were seated, she reportedly pulled out a gun she had hidden in the couch. Jason tried to protect his daughters but Christy refused his pleas, insisting she had to kill them to “punish” him.
“He told Christy, ‘Just shoot yourself. Make it easy on all of us, just shoot yourself,’ and she said, ‘No, that’s not what this is about, this is about punishing you,’” Davey said.
Ford Bend Country Police said in a news conference on Thursday that Jason “felt Christy wanted him to suffer,” believing that she could have killed him at any time when the daughters were not around but she decided not to.
Taylor, 22, and Maddison, 17
Christy then chased her daughters out onto the street where she shot them both. One died instantly while the other died a short time later in hospital.
She then ran back into the family home to get more ammunition to shoot Jason too, but a neighbour saved Jason’s life by letting him hide in her house.
Christy was subsequently shot by police when she refused to lower her weapon when they arrived on the scene after a concerned neighbour called 911.
The disturbing distress call heard Jason in the background screaming “Please don’t shoot. Please, I beg you. Please don’t point the gun at us.”
Jason with eldest daughter Taylor
The two daughters were hysterical in the background.
Police said of Jason: “This is something he is going to have to live with for the rest of his life. She accomplished what she set out to do, which is to make him suffer.”
Christy had a long history of mental illness, and was hospitalised several times in the past after suicide attempts.
Shockingly, police had been called to the family home for 14 separate occasions since 2012.
Taylor with her fiance, who she was due to wed this week
Tragically, 22-year-old Taylor would have been married this week. She was reportedly due to wed her boyfriend of four years in a small ceremony.
