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[h=1]MOM DROWNS DAUGHTER, SHOOTS SON THEN TAKES BUS TO HOSPITAL[/h]
(BlackMediaScoop) A New Orleans mother shot her 3-year-old son, drowned her 4-year-old daughter and took a bus to a hospital, complaining of stomach pains and a headache, police said.The children’s bodies were found in the bathtub of her home Wednesday evening, the New Orleans Police said in a statement. The mother, identified as 23 year old Chelsea Thornton, admitted to officers that she killed the young children.
After the killings, she said she boarded a bus to a nearby hospital. Thornton, seen below, faces first degree murder charges. Family members were left bewildered as to what happened from the time the 23-year-old mother picked up her children from nursery school to about 5:30 p.m., when the children’s paternal grandmother discovered their bodies in a bathtub in the Gert Town apartment.
Family members said they worried about the woman, and her care of the children. “I wish she would’ve opened up more to us,” said Nicole Hammons, a cousin of the children’s father. “As family members, we could’ve pushed harder. We were concerned for the kids. We obviously didn’t know this would happen.”
At some point Wednesday afternoon, the mother called the father, who does not live with her, and asked him to meet her at a hospital because she was not feeling well.
When the 29-year-old father arrived there, he asked where the children were. The mother said they were at day care, but he sent his mother with a key to the apartment to check on them anyway, Hammons said. The grandmother found the bodies of Chelsea Adams, 4, and Kendall Adams, 3, in the bathtub, Hammons said.
A relative of the children’s father was outside the apartment Wednesday as detectives worked inside.
“There is no reason for this. I just wish that we could have helped her and helped them,” Nicole Hammons said. Hammons said the father of the children had an off -and-on relationship with Thornton.
“He tried to help her and help their kids, and other family members also tried to help her. You can only go so far,” she said.
(BlackMediaScoop) A New Orleans mother shot her 3-year-old son, drowned her 4-year-old daughter and took a bus to a hospital, complaining of stomach pains and a headache, police said.The children’s bodies were found in the bathtub of her home Wednesday evening, the New Orleans Police said in a statement. The mother, identified as 23 year old Chelsea Thornton, admitted to officers that she killed the young children.
After the killings, she said she boarded a bus to a nearby hospital. Thornton, seen below, faces first degree murder charges. Family members were left bewildered as to what happened from the time the 23-year-old mother picked up her children from nursery school to about 5:30 p.m., when the children’s paternal grandmother discovered their bodies in a bathtub in the Gert Town apartment.
Family members said they worried about the woman, and her care of the children. “I wish she would’ve opened up more to us,” said Nicole Hammons, a cousin of the children’s father. “As family members, we could’ve pushed harder. We were concerned for the kids. We obviously didn’t know this would happen.”
At some point Wednesday afternoon, the mother called the father, who does not live with her, and asked him to meet her at a hospital because she was not feeling well.
When the 29-year-old father arrived there, he asked where the children were. The mother said they were at day care, but he sent his mother with a key to the apartment to check on them anyway, Hammons said. The grandmother found the bodies of Chelsea Adams, 4, and Kendall Adams, 3, in the bathtub, Hammons said.
A relative of the children’s father was outside the apartment Wednesday as detectives worked inside.
“There is no reason for this. I just wish that we could have helped her and helped them,” Nicole Hammons said. Hammons said the father of the children had an off -and-on relationship with Thornton.
“He tried to help her and help their kids, and other family members also tried to help her. You can only go so far,” she said.