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Texas mother who killed daughters called family meeting to start rampage, police say
FoxNews.com ^ | 6-28-2016 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 06/28/2016 5:38:10 AM PDT by servo1969

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said a family argument led to the shooting Friday evening at a home outside the Houston suburb of Fulshear. Christy Sheats, 42, convened the meeting in the living room of the home that was attended by her husband Jason Sheats, and her daughters, Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17, according to the sheriff's office.

"During that meeting, Christy Sheats held up a gun and shot both girls," the sheriff's office said.

Jason Sheats and the daughters ran outside where Madison Sheats collapsed and died. Jason Sheats ran to the end of the cul-de-sac.

Christy Sheats shot Taylor Sheats one more time on the street. A witness told investigators Christy Sheats then went back into the home, reloaded her gun and shot Taylor once more.

When officers arrived, they saw Christy Sheats shooting one of her daughters in the street, the sheriff's office said.

An officer fatally shot Christy Sheats after she refused to obey commands to drop her handgun. Taylor Sheats was taken to a Houston hospital, where she died.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; murder
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To: Lee'sGhost

It means that the “economic” conservatives are mistaken in telling the “social” conservatives to sit down and shut up.

No amount of supply side economics will fix moral bankruptcy.


61 posted on 06/28/2016 8:07:40 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: napscoordinator

“Do you? How uncomfortable would that be.”

Not on my person. That’d be stupid. Don’t be stupid or paranoid of guns.


62 posted on 06/28/2016 8:08:06 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Timpanagos1

You sound like a liberal that thinks the mere presence of guns results in wild accidents.

Try researching crime and firearm accident rates instead of just making wild-assed assumptions based on your fear and ignorance.

The fact is more people protect themselves using guns than are harmed by guns accidentally by a large margin.

Suicide is rarely by firearm. Suicides are by overdose and strangulation. I know, the wife runs mental hospitals and I wrote the behavioral health programs for the State of Colorado.

More children die from drowning in 5 gallon buckets than die from firearms every year. Do you question the presence of 5 gallon buckets in homes?

More children die each year from falls, such as falling down stairs than die from firearms each year. Do you question the presence of stairs?

Thousands of children die from car accidents each year. Do you question the use of cars with children?


63 posted on 06/28/2016 8:13:45 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: pepsionice

“I think if we established prescription drugs as one of the key factors in these episodes, we’d press for laws to eliminate these drugs from sales.”

Oho! You mean Big Pharma might get blamed for mass murders, like the NRA does now?
Don’t most users successfully manage their illnesses with these same types of prescription drugs, without going homicidal, just like the majority of gun owners?
I’m not totally against what you’re saying. Perhaps it would be a useful debate, which, so far, Big Pharma has managed to prevent.
My admittedly unscientific and entirely anecdotally-based opinion is that it’s probably not the USE of the drug which causes the meltdown.
More likely, it’s the sudden, unmonitored WITHDRAWAL.


64 posted on 06/28/2016 8:18:45 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: CodeToad

I simply asked a question.

Thanks for answering that question.


65 posted on 06/28/2016 8:20:04 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: dmz

"...Already happened on a previous thread.
The suggestion from some of those who make up details for themselves when they are not yet known was that he was complicit..."


Listening to the Armchair Special Forces types yammer about exactly the tactic they would have utilized in *whatever* specific situation is always good for a chuckle. :-)

66 posted on 06/28/2016 9:00:35 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: mumblypeg

I worked with a guy who had a 17-year old daughter with various issues. The doc put her on a new medication one day. The next day....the family was on some outing near a Virginia interstate, where the daughter had some meltdown, and the cops felt that the father had triggered some event to occur and actually held him for six hours until the wife bailed him out. The medication? Oh, they went back to the original stuff.


67 posted on 06/28/2016 9:05:42 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: bert
The daughters were more beautiful...... her day was over, the luster was gone

I was wondering about that. Looks like she was trying to keep up that very youth-specific Kardashian look, and not succeeding. Add to that marital woes and the onset of menopause, while in front of you youth, beauty and sex appeal parade shamelessly....

I don't know whether I will age gracefully myself (I'm 43 and watching myself go from gorgeous to "meh", and I can tell you it's not easy, especially if you're a bit on the, um, colorful side as I am), but I can't imagine being anything but proud and protective of my beautiful little daughter as she grows up!

68 posted on 06/28/2016 9:11:43 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Paisley Park is in my heart.)
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To: CaptainK

I read a comment by a woman for whom the youngest babysat.
Said the Mom Sheats was bipolar, and off her med’s. I think it was in the Houston Chronicle.


69 posted on 06/28/2016 9:12:13 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: CodeToad

Great points. Many have a knee jerk reaction to firearms and need perspective. The media and libs try their best to brainwash that knee jerk reaction into everyone so they can get firearms away from everybody.

People need to do their own research, the media and political sound bites are the worst way to find out about anything.


70 posted on 06/28/2016 9:15:48 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: servo1969

Family mental illness: 95% of families are dysfunctional.


71 posted on 06/28/2016 9:28:16 AM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Our Children)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Some people can function on psychotropic meds. But it seems to change the brain function of some when they start taking them or when they go off them.
72 posted on 06/28/2016 9:40:11 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: RichInOC

LOL!


73 posted on 06/28/2016 9:56:57 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: CaptainK
I do not disagree psychotropic meds are entirely over prescribed and are all too often the treatment of first resort instead of last.

Sunday I posted an article which stated the mother had a history of mental illness and that many of LEO visits to the house were due to her mental crises. I only wanted to point out that perhaps this was a case of someone who may have stopped her meds and as a result her symptoms returned.

I have no way of knowing, of course. Just raising it as a possibility.

Not cutting her slack or making excuses for her-she got what she deserved.

74 posted on 06/28/2016 11:02:21 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Lee'sGhost

nah I made a mistake.....to quick on the trigger......didn’t pay attention to the fact you were responding to a previous post


75 posted on 06/28/2016 11:03:58 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: servo1969; Tax-chick
When officers arrived, they saw Christy Sheats shooting one of her daughters in the street, the sheriff's office said.

Now I'm not a doctor, but....

76 posted on 06/28/2016 11:12:13 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: servo1969

Dad led the way running out the door ahead of his daughters it sounds? No heroic actions from him.


77 posted on 06/28/2016 11:12:34 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Valpal1; All

More details in this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3661442/Texas-mom-shot-daughters-mental-crisis-involved-previous-altercations-home-cops-say.html

1)The husband and wife had recently reconciled after a separation.
2)She shot and killed her daughters on the husband’s birthday.


78 posted on 06/28/2016 11:39:40 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Still Thinking

Heh.


79 posted on 06/28/2016 12:28:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Estos sufrimientos pasaran, y la esperanza una salida marcara." ~ Abp. Romero)
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To: grobdriver

No, this is exactly what the gungrabbers want, ALL transfers recorded. And they do want you to report gifts, inheritances, and such. When they use the words “gunshow loophole”, they aren’t really referring to gunshows, but private gun transfers.

Can’t have confiscations until they have registration of all guns.


80 posted on 06/28/2016 1:26:36 PM PDT by wrench
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