Julie Powers Schenecker, the 50-year-old mother who fatally shot her two teenagers in Tampa
The headline popped up on my laptop screen and I’m still in shock. A mother shot her sixteen and thirteen-year-old children in the head. For being “mouthy.”
The shooting occurred Thursday evening. Police say that at about 7 p.m., Julie Schenecker armed herself with a .38-caliber pistol that she had purchased Jan. 22 and shot her son twice in the head “for talking back to her” as she drove him to soccer practice, an arrest affidavit states.
She left him in the garage and went upstairs, where she shot her 16-year-old daughter in the back of the head while she did homework on the computer, the affidavit states.
We’ve discussed similar tragedies like this on the site in the past,
If you haven’t seen the shocking story that came out Saturday, you can read it in full on the Bradenton.com website.
There are so many mental-health options for parents out there, this just leads me to wonder: why did no one see this coming? Could someone not have gotten help for this mother? Did she just snap?
We have all found ourselves at breaking points. . .but few could ever conceive the horror of harming our children. My heart breaks for the father of these children who will live with the loss of his precious kids and surely, the court case that will lead to more publicity for their family.
