Husband wakes to the sound of his wife shooting their nine-year-old son dead before she begged him to kill her

The mother of a nine-year-old boy shot him five times in the home she shared with him and the boy’s father in Steamboat Springs, Colorado then turned the gun on herself, according to a preliminary investigation by the Routt County Sheriff’s Office .

Lisa Marie Lesyshen shot and killed her son Asher on Tuesday, leaving a note by the child’s bed telling the father Michael Kirlan that he was to blame for her actions.

Her husband was woken by the shots and called 911 as she asked him to kill her. She survived.

‘Remember you are responsible for what has happened here and you are the person that caused it,’ she wrote, signing the note, ‘Lisa and Asher’.

…Receipts found in the home show that Lisa Marie Lesyshen purchased the revolver used to murder her son two days before the killing. The employee who sold her the gun had to show her how to load it.

The employee told Steamboat Today that Lesyshen stated she wanted the gun for protection because her husband was out of town, and needed instruction on how to use it…

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