3 children and 1 woman dead after apparent murder – Saming in Chesapik, police say – Yahoo! Voices

Chesapeake – Bear Thornton was preparing to get his children on the school bus on Thursday morning when he heard shouts coming from a neighbor’s house.

“I just heard a lot of screams,” Tornton said as he stood in front of his home a few hours later, a blanket wrapped around the shoulders. “The kids I heard screaming.”

Soon sirens, police cars and other emergency vehicles filled the area, she said. A little later, the officers found three children and a woman dead in a city house in a 3000 block of Welcome Road, in what investigators called an apparent killing.

Police said they had been summoned there shortly before 7 o’clock in the morning to check the welfare. The home is located in Miro Selo, a public housing complex near Campostella Road. The police learned that there was an armed woman in the house and a tactical team and negotiators were called at the scene.

Through a conversation that lasted more than an hour, investigators learned that there were three deceased children in the home, according to a police spokesman. The tactical team forced to enter through the back window and found the woman with a clearly self -inflicted firearm wound, along with the children.

Family and neighbors who gathered outside the city house on Thursday said the deceased woman was the mother of three children: a 14-year-old girl and 7-year-old children. One twin was a boy, the other girl. The Virginian pilot did not name them until police were able to inform their next family.

Sean Willis said he came to the neighborhood as soon as he heard. Willis said his brother was the father of the twins.

“I knew she (the mother) had any mental problems, but I didn’t know it was so bad,” Willis said.

Shana Hicks, a resident of the community and leader of the organization Breakbarriers 757, said she had started receiving calls from other residents early this morning. Some had seen the mother go to social media and say that she would commit suicide, Hicks said.

The woman also called her grandmother and told her the same, according to Holly Ingram, who is the woman’s big aunt. Ingram said it had been several months since the grandmother and the woman had last talked.

This is a developing story.

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Gavin Stone, 757-712-4806, [email protected]