Mom with History of Mental Illness Kills Daughters

According to local law enforcement officials, a mother from Texas who was shot dead by police after she shot her two adult daughters in the street as her husband watched in horror last Friday allegedly had a history of mental illness. The spokesperson with the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office, Caitilin Espinosa, said that prior to the heart-breaking scene which unfolded on Friday, police had been to the home of the deceased mom, 42-year-old Christy Sheats, “for previous altercations involving her mental crisis.” However, when they responded again on Friday, the crisis was fatal. The bodies of the two daughters, 17-year-old Madison and 22-year-old Taylor, were in the street after they allegedly fled from their mother when she began firing her gun inside the family home that she also shared with her husband, Jason, who was the only survivor of his wife’s manic onslaught. The Fort Bend Police said that at about 5:01 p.m. on Friday, they began receiving 911 calls regarding shots fired in the Westheimer Lakes-North area. When police arrived they found two individuals, later identified as Sheats’ daughters, shot in the street. Sheats, who was also in the street, was armed and refused to drop her weapon, so she was killed by an officer.An eyewitness shared the ordeal with newsmen: “I saw Madison and Jason running out of their home. The young women were already wounded. Taylor collapsed on the street and I saw Christy come outside with a gun and then go back inside to reload. When she returned, she shot Madison in the back.” “All I saw was the police officer aiming his rifle toward someone and saying ‘drop your weapons,’ and then afterward another gunshot. Soon after that there were a lot of police cars that came,” explained neighbor Sabeeh Siddiqui. Fazz Zainuddin said that Sheats’ husband and the police tried to dissuade her from harming her daughters. “The cops were behind the trees and behind the cars, and they told the mom to put the gun down and obviously she did not. “She walked towards the body, I think Madison was already on the ground and I guess the cop was afraid that she was going to shoot her again,” Zainuddin said. Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls also told newsmen that Jason watched his wife commit the brutal murders.“He heard the dad say, ‘Don’t do this. They’re our kids’,” Zainuddin said. “He was going through a very difficult time,” Nehls said. Another neighbour, who said she was close to the family said Jason and Christy had recently reunited after being separated. She said the shooting happened on Jason’s birthday. On her Facebook page, Christy Sheats often posted musings reflecting her love for God, family and guns. She noted in one of her posts: “The two key founding documents in American history are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The first explains why we exist as a nation. Not only does the Declaration mention God four times, most importantly, it says that our rights come from the Creator.” “The Constitution explains how we exist as a nation ”“ how we are to function. The Constitution is predicated on the Declaration which is referenced in the ratification clause. “When skeptics claim the Constitution doesn’t mention God (which it does, in the ratification clause), they ignore that the latter is predicated on the former,” she continued. “Obama and liberal supporters think any mention of God in government is ”˜unconstitutional’. That, ironically, would make the Constitution itself unconstitutional,” she added.