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Michigan authorities say a mom fatally shot her three children Monday before turning the gun on herself.
On Wednesday, Kent County officials identified Aubrianne Moore, 28, and her daughters Alaina Rau, 2, Cassidy Rodery, 6, and Kyrie Rodery, 8, as the four people found dead at a Grand Rapids home Monday afternoon, a Kent County Sheriff Office official tells PEOPLE
Their deaths were ruled a triple murder-suicide, and police determined the mom shot her children, the official says.
The officials says Moore used a bolt-action hunting-style rifle to fatally shoot her kids in a wooded area near their home. She then loaded their bodies into her car and returned home, where she killed herself outside the vehicle.
Kyrie, a third grader, “loved to read, always volunteered to help others, her classmates loved her, and she was a good friend,” her teacher, Mrs. Schnepp, said in the letter.
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The sheriff’s spokesperson tells PEOPLE that authorities had been called to the home in the past.
The calls were “mental health related issues with some incidents that could be characterized as domestic civil disputes,” the spokesperson says.
In September, Moore was declared a danger to herself and hospitalized for more than a week, the stations report.
On a GoFundMe pageto cover funeral costs for the family, the girls’ uncle Joseph Graham wrote, “I lost my nieces, and the world lost 3 beautiful angels; Kyrie Rodery, Cassidy Rodery, and Alaina Moore. At the hand of their own mother. No one understands and no one ever will but what I am trying to accomplish is to give my big brother and nephew some sort of support.”
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “home” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
