The mother who shot her two daughters dead in the street outside their Texas home committed the shocking 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.
Jason Sheats with his eldest daughter Taylor.
Christy Sheats
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.
Madison Sheats was just 17 years old.
Taylor with her fiance, who she was due to wed yesterday.
In a tragic twist, it emerged that yesterday should have been Taylor Sheats’ wedding day. She was reportedly due to wed her boyfriend of four years in a small ceremony. Instead, family and friends will gather at her funeral, which is expected to be held in Alabama later this week.
Christy, who is believed to have struggled with mental illness for several years, 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.”
