Today, Taylor Sheats should be giddily preparing to walk down the aisle to marry the love of her life. Instead, she is lying in a Texas morgue, stabbed and shot by her own mother.
Taylor and her little sister Madison, 17, were killed during an argument with their mother Christy Sheats, 42, on Friday.
It is not known what the disagreement was about, but it ended in Christy chasing the girls out of the family house onto their quiet residential street and gunning them down. One of the young women died on the scene and the other in hospital a short time later.
In a tragic twist, The Daily Mail reports Taylor was due to wed her fiancé Juan Sebastian Lugo in a small ceremony today.
The couple were reportedly planning a bigger celebration later in the year when she had graduated from university.
Taylor Sheats was 22 and due to marry her fiance today.
Her sister Madison Sheats was just 17.
Christy Sheats killed her daughters.
The girls’ father Jason was also home at the time of the attack and reportedly narrowly escaped becoming his wife’s third victim after a neighbour let 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.
Christy was very active on social media and had also posted about America’s proposed gun control laws.
“It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away, but that’s exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semiautomatic weapons,” she wrote in March.
“I have 10 guns. Obama wants eight of my guns. How many guns do I have? That’s right, I have 10 guns.”
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