US EditionMother in affluent Florida community killed 2 children before taking her own life: police
The mother fatally shot her two children before taking her own life in a violent incident inside their luxury Lakewood Ranch home, deputies said.
- On Thursday night, Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the 8200 block of Pavia Way and found a woman and two children dead inside a Lakewood Ranch home.
- After a call from a homeowner overseas requesting a welfare check, deputies were sent because the concerned father could not reach his family, who moved from Missouri about three years ago.
- Deputies said inside they found a 14-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl and their 44-year-old mother dead in separate rooms, and investigators say they are confident this was a murder-suicide with no one else entering or leaving.
- Investigators say the probe is active and detectives are processing the scene and reviewing evidence, while The Lake Club at Lakewood Ranch HOA acknowledged the tragedy and neighbors in the Lake Club community expressed shock.
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Florida Mother Allegedly Kills Children Before Taking Own Life
A 44-year-old mother from Florida allegedly killed her two children before taking her own life on the night of 26 February in an incident that left the Florida community stunned. Authorities are now investigating the case as a murder-suicide. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that deputies received a welfare check request for a home in the 8200 block of Pavia Way in Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton, Florida, on 26 February 2026…
Florida Mother Allegedly Killed Her 2 Children Then Died by Suicide
Police in Florida are investigating what could have led a mother to slaughter her two children in a double murder-suicide that has left neighbors stupefied. Deputies from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office received a call on Thursday, February 26, from a troubled father traveling abroad at the time, concerned after he was unable to reach his wife and kids. When first responders arrived at the exclusive coastal Lakewood Ranch neighborhood, they …
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