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Polk County man kills wife, shoots and injures stepdaughter before taking own life, deputies say
Jason Kenney killed his wife and critically injured his 13-year-old stepdaughter after an argument during a football game; deputies treated the case as a murder-suicide.
- Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said that around 11 p.m. on Monday, deputies responded to Lemon Avenue in Highland City, where Jason Kenney shot his wife, stepdaughter, and then died by a self-inflicted gunshot in Lake Wales.
- An argument over the television escalated during a San Francisco 49ers game late Monday after Crystal Kenney suggested changing the channel, and Sheriff Grady Judd said Jason Kenney had been drinking.
- Crystal instructed her 12‑year‑old son to run for help, and he heard a gunshot as he left; deputies arrived within about five minutes and found the one‑year‑old biological daughter asleep and unharmed in the Lemon Avenue home.
- The three surviving children are now in the care of their grandparents while Florida Department of Children and Families determines long‑term placement, and Sheriff Grady Judd said the 13‑year‑old is critical but stable and alert at Lakeland Regional Health as of Dec. 23.
- During the drive, Kenney called his sister in Upstate New York, admitted he had `done something very, very bad,' and was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot in a shed at his late father's property in Lake Wales, investigators said.
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Polk County man kills wife, shoots and injures stepdaughter before taking own life, deputies say
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a murder-suicide that left a woman dead, her daughter critically injured, and the woman’s husband dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound three days before Christmas, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.
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Lakeland woman dead, 13-year-old shot in the face after man is enraged by request to change the TV channel
LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — Two people are dead, and a young girl is critically injured after an argument over the TV channel escalated into a murder-suicide in Lakeland on Monday night. Sheriff Grady Judd said Jason Kenney and his wife, Crystal Kenney, were watching the end of a football game when Crystal suggested they watch [...]
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