Update: Fla. Mom Who Shot ‘Mouthy’ Kids Went to Sleep After Killings
- Posted on February 1, 2011 at 3:50pm by
Meredith Jessup
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A suburban Tampa mother covered the bodies of her two teenage children with blankets after shooting them in the head, then fell asleep on the back porch in a blood-soaked robe, according to a court document made public Tuesday.
A search-warrant affidavit filed with the court said two police officers found 50-year-old Julie Schenecker unconscious on the screened back porch of the upscale home Friday morning, her white robe covered with dried blood. Schenecker’s mother had called from Texas and asked police to check on her daughter, who had been depressed and complaining about her children.
One of the officers found the covered body of Schenecker’s 16-year-old daughter, Calyx, in a bed upstairs, the affidavit said. The body of her son was found in a van in the garage, also covered with a blanket. She told detectives she killed them for being “mouthy.”
Schenecker told detectives she had shot her son twice in the head in the van “for talking back” while she drove him to soccer practice Thursday night. She said she returned home and killed her daughter with two shots to the head while the girl sat at a computer doing homework. She then apparently moved her to a bed.
Both teens were killed with a .38-caliber pistol, which authorities say Schenecker bought five days earlier.
Bullets, medication and a Smith & Wesson instruction manual were among the items found in the master bedroom and bathroom upstairs, the document said. It did not specify what type of medication was found.
Schenecker was ordered held without bail Monday during a brief court hearing during which she did not speak.
Neither Schenecker nor her husband, Parker — an Army intelligence officer who was working in the Middle East when the shootings happened — had a criminal record. Child welfare workers investigated a complaint by Calyx that her mother, with whom she often fought, had slapped her on at least two occasions, most recently in November. Documents released by the state agency said the family was in counseling and the children did not seem to be in any danger.
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empty13
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 8:52pmone time she shouldnt have had that ‘sticktoitiveness’.
all parents have that thought cross their mind. some time. step back. waaaay back.
what kind of moron needs to refer to the operator’s manual for a handgun…
Report Post »docvet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 3:11pmSounds like a case of severe depression. I wouldn’t be supprised if the medications were antidepressants that were not effective. I’m not letting her off the hook since she had the presence of mind to buy a gun. I feel sorry for the husband who will come home from the Middle East to two dead children and a wife in jail.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 8:08pmSome of those anti-depressive meds have wild side effects. This was done in a cold, controlled manner, not in a fit of rage. She planned it out.
May God comfort the father in the loss of his family.
Report Post »tobefreeinmt
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 11:08amLets here it for the death penalty. I don’t want to have to feed this POS for the rest of her useless life. I will spend a few bucks for the rope though. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe she just needs some therapy, or an anger management program. After all, we don’t want to offend anyone by calling her worthless murdering scum, and have someone think we’re talking about some politician, or president.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 10:04amFrom this sad tragedy, it appears that some believe (because the law says so), that if it‘s ok to take their child’s life before birth (abortion), they also believe that it’s ok to take their children out after birth.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:29amTowards the End many will lose their souls (minds)…and snap.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 2:13amBluenight, agreed, but it still shocks me and saddens me for these children. The horror and coldness of these people and their actions bring me to tears. The sad thing is that unless it happens in your area we only hear of isolated cases while so many more occurr .
Report Post »BlueNight
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 1:41amBefore the end of days, the love of many will grow cold…
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