OT: Gahhhhhh—freaking diabolical…

‘She wanted him to suffer’: Sheriff explains why Texas mom killed two daughters in front of husband

Nearly a week ago, on June 24 , his 45th birthday, Jason Sheats gathered with his family in the living room of their Houston-suburb home about 5 p.m. Beside him were his daughters, Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17. His wife, Christy, had called a family meeting.

After years of challenges with Christy’s mental health, her struggles with depression and anxiety, her suicide attempts, Jason told authorities that he thought perhaps she was going to announce she had decided to file for divorce. The couple had talked about separating.

But instead, police said, the 42-year-old mother pulled out a .38 caliber handgun, a gift from her late grandfather, and pointed it at her screaming children. Then she shot them, inside the house and out in the street, where the girls collapsed and stopped moving. When law enforcement arrived, they watched Christy fire a final bullet into her eldest daughter, then a police officer shot the mother dead. […]

In interviews with police, Jason said he believes that was all part of Christy’s plan.

“She wanted him to suffer,” Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said in a news conference Wednesday. “Christy had ample time to shoot and kill Mr. Sheats in the home but she chose not to. Mr. Sheats stated that Christy knew how much he loved Taylor and Madison, and how much they loved him.”

“Mr. Sheats will have to live the rest of his life with this horrible memory,” Nehls said. […]

Sheriff’s deputies had been called out to the house more than a dozen times since 2012, the same year Christy’s elderly grandfather died in Alabama, where he raised her like a daughter. Two months later, her mother died. That’s when her “downward spiral” began, Nehls said, recounting interviews with Jason Sheats. […]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/30/she-wanted-him-to-suffer-sheriff-explains-why-texas-mom-two-killed-daughters-in-front-of-husband/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-story-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory