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Family: Dad Shoots Twin Babies to Death in Mom's Arms, Critically Injures Her, Kills Her Father
Yahoo News ^ | November 19, 2015 | Deborah Hastings

Posted on 11/21/2015 11:59:57 AM PST by Perseverando

A mother lies hospitalized in critical condition after the father of her twin baby girls shot them to death in her arms, and then killed the woman’s dad, according to her family.

Ultimately, Gawain Rushane Wilson turned the weapon on himself and died at the scene, authorities said.

The carnage took place in the Jacksonville, Florida, home of Travis Hiatt, the twin’s grandfather. His daughter, Megan, and her five-month-old girls Hayden and Kayden, had been living with him, authorities said, according to local reports.

Wilson allegedly entered the home and forced his estranged girlfriend to pick up the babies.

“He wanted to destroy her world,” the woman’s mother, Melissa Bateh, told First Coast News about last week’s devastation. “He wanted her to watch it be destroyed.”

Bateh said her 22-year-old daughter told her, “Mama, he killed them. He killed them in my arms. He made me hold them when he killed them. He made me watch.”

Jacksonville Sheriff’s deputies declined comment when reached by INSIDE EDITION Thursday evening.

Bateh said her daughter had to crawl through her infants’ blood to reach her father, who was dying on the floor. “He wanted her to tell her brother that he was the best son ever and he loved him.”

The mother said she had misgivings about her daughter’s relationship with Wilson, who she described as threatening and controlling.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: childmurder; domesticviolence; infanticide; jacksonville
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I just keep running across these insane, evil stories today. What is going on with people? Don't they know there is a God in Heaven?

For the 3rd or 4th time today:

"When I read something like this, it makes me think that if there is no Hell there is no justice in this world or the next.

It's time for him to evacuate the planet, meet his Maker and receive his eternal reward."

1 posted on 11/21/2015 11:59:57 AM PST by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Welcome to Obama’s third world Amerika.


2 posted on 11/21/2015 12:03:11 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#blackfridaysmatter)
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To: Perseverando

Commonplace in these types of cases.


3 posted on 11/21/2015 12:04:15 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Perseverando

If Obama had a son, he’d kill everyone around him.


4 posted on 11/21/2015 12:06:05 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Perseverando

#StopBlackViolence


5 posted on 11/21/2015 12:08:03 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Procrastination is not a crime. Just a tad late for a Planned Parenthood appointment.


6 posted on 11/21/2015 12:08:28 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Perseverando

This is a result of the decline of moral values in society....brought to you by liberals who say “truth is whatever you believe it to be”. There are no longer any moral absolutes.


7 posted on 11/21/2015 12:08:57 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Perseverando

Post pictures of the guy.


8 posted on 11/21/2015 12:09:32 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Perseverando

They’re just late term abortions, inner-city style.


9 posted on 11/21/2015 12:10:11 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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Jacksonville, FL. Gawaine Rushane Wilson.
Need I ask?

If O’Venal had a son...


10 posted on 11/21/2015 12:11:04 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Perseverando

This mother should be required to pay reparations to the shooter. Her white privilege is at the bottom of all of this.


11 posted on 11/21/2015 12:14:43 PM PST by centurion316 (,)
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Funny thing is, last month the police would have arrested anyone trying to prevent her from killing her babies.

One month later, the same police arrest anyone attempting to do what was perfectly fine in the prior month.

12 posted on 11/21/2015 12:15:34 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Perseverando

Megan Hiatt and Gawain Wilson

13 posted on 11/21/2015 12:19:28 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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As if she didn't know her "boyfriend" was a thug!

14 posted on 11/21/2015 12:20:09 PM PST by kcvl
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The mother said she had misgivings about her daughter’s relationship with Wilson, who she described as threatening and controlling.

He would limit Megan’s contact with family and friends and take away her cell phone, Bateh said.

“As a parent, you know,” she said. “I knew in my gut their relationship was not healthy.”


15 posted on 11/21/2015 12:21:57 PM PST by kcvl
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WARNING - graphic text below
16 posted on 11/21/2015 12:23:40 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Post pictures of the guy.

Him and her:


17 posted on 11/21/2015 12:24:05 PM PST by null and void (We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
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The grieving mother said she was troubled by her daughter’s relationship with Wilson, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to strangling another woman before undertaking a domestic violence program.

Ms Bateh said Wilson was controlling, smashed furniture, grabbed her daughter and demanded she lose weight just days after giving birth to their twins.


18 posted on 11/21/2015 12:25:38 PM PST by kcvl
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To: null and void

omg


19 posted on 11/21/2015 12:41:14 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MrEdd

Is the killer BLACK?


20 posted on 11/21/2015 12:46:34 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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