Getting pretty bad when they resort to this.
Police found Tonya Thomas, of Brevard County County, Fla., dead Tuesday of an apparent self-inflicted wound and the bodies of her children.
Police say the 33-year-old mother sent a text in the middle of the night that she wanted to be cremated with her children, who ranged in ages 12-17, and then shot them.
Three of the children reportedly tried to escape to a neighbors home, a police spokesman told Fox affiliate WOFL, with one boy yelling out "she shot me."
Authorities say Thomas then lured the children back to the home, and murdered them one by one.
"She essentially called them back in to be slaughtered more or less," Lt. Tod Goodyear, a spokesman for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office told the station.
When deputies arrived at the home they found 17-year-old Pebbles Johnson dead in the front yard. The bodies of the other children, identified as 15-year-old Jaxs Johnson, 13-year-old Jazzlyn Johnson and 12-year-old Joel Johnson, were found in the front entrance of the home.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/15/authorities-5-dead-after-shootings-in-fla/?test=latestnews
