Reports: Two dead, one hospitalized after shooting in Katy

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Reports: Two dead, one hospitalized after shooting in Katy

Will Axford, Houston Chronicle

Updated 6:53 pm, Friday, June 24, 2016

A mother fatally shot one of her daughters and critically wounded another before she was shot and killed by an officer in Katy, according to media reports.

At 5:28 p.m., the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office reported an active shooter in Katy via Twitter.

Deputies are responding to the scene on the 6000 block of Remson Hollow to investigate.

KTRK reports, a Fulshear police officer arrived after deputies got the call about the shooting in the middle of the street. By the time the officer arrived, one daughter was already dead and the mother was about to shoot the second daughter again, before the officer opened fire.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/fortbend/article/Sheriff-s-Office-media-reports-active-shooter-in-8324118.php

[forest444]

1. Just another day in America. May God bless the family.

[Feeling the Bern]

2. Cue NRA talking points from gun huggers in 5 4 3 2 1. I'll begin

Don't blame the tool, blame the person.
Cars kill too.
Knives kill too.
Criminals don't care if there are gun control laws.
All we need is more guns and then we'll be safe.

[ileus]

3. ^he makes a good point.

[That Guy 888]

4. If the Houston media is anything like the media here in San Antonio...

The murderer and victims were white, so no name no pictures.

If the republicans and NRA didn't pass a law preventing the government from collecting data on gun deaths, I think we would see how many more of these deaths, accidental shootings, and suicides there are than "good guys with guns" shooting criminals.

[Igel]

8. The law prevents NIH from doing the research.

FBI collects data on homcides, and breaks it down in the uniform crime reports by demographics. It includes whether or not a gun was used.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr

It's probably not complete, but you're not going to do much better.

[EL34x4]

5. 2nd daughter has died.

Identified as mother Christy Sheats, 42 and daughters Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17.

http://abc13.com/news/mother-two-daughters-killed-in-ft-bend-shooting-identified/1400653/

This poor father just saw his entire family wiped out.

[LuckyLib]

7. Interesting comment by neighbor:

"Those parents are good. They are hard-working," said a next-door neighbor who wanted to stay anonymous. "Very good family. I do not know how this happened. So I cannot believe that."

I took that to mean "white" -- you don't often see such comments by neighbors in black or Latino communities printed in media accounts.

[EL34x4]

10. Very white

Pics at the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3659694/Mother-42-killed-police-fatally-shot-two-daughters-aged-22-17-family-dispute-spilled-residential-street-Houston.html

There are claims that the police have been to this home several times and the parents were going through a divorce.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Your article indicates the father was home at the time. That had to leave an imprint.

I wonder if he intends to rethink that gun fever thing.

Thanks for the link.

[snooper2]

31. Looks like the wife was a gun nut, maybe he didn't like them or have any

But don't let that get in the way of preconceived notions!

[LanternWaste]

32. I think you inaccurately inferred preconceived notions that simply do not seem to be there.

I think you inaccurately inferred preconceived notions that simply do not seem to be there.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Shootings like that are a daily occurence

Here in KC.

Every day they find someone else shot and laying on the street or in an alley or in a yard.

Last week a four year old got caught in the crossfire of two cars engaged in a running gunfight. His poor father turned onto a street and was right in the middle of a gun fight. The little boy died.

And people in the Missouri legislature are pushing for more lax gun laws. It's insane.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Rabid right-wingers in both the Kansas and Missouri legislatures. So damned sad.

The people are paying dearly for the sins of the right-wing sociopaths.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. So many little kids and babies have been killed.

It's so awful.

[Vinca]

9. In America we call that Friday.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Texas mother fatally shoots 2 daughters; police kill her

Texas mother fatally shoots 2 daughters; police kill her

Updated 3:37 pm, Saturday, June 25, 2016

FULSHEAR, Texas (AP) — Police say a Houston-area woman fatally shot her two daughters before officers shot and killed her.

The incident happened about 5 p.m. Friday in front of a home just outside the Houston suburb of Fulshear. The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office identified the mother as 42-year-old Christy Sheats and her daughters as 22-year-old Taylor Sheats and 17-year-old Madison Sheats.

Sheriff Troy Nehls says the shooting apparently climaxed a family argument, but the reason for the argument remains unclear.

Nehls says the two younger women had already been shot when a Fulshear police officer arrived and saw the mother with a gun in her hand, apparently preparing to shoot one of her daughters again. The officer shot and killed the woman.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-mother-fatally-shoots-2-daughters-police-8324442.php

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Christy Sheats



Murdered by their mother, Christy Sheats were daughters, Madison Sheats (left) and Taylor Sheats (right).[/center]

[HughBeaumont]

12. Mom was a right wing loonbar.

https://www.facebook.com/cbsheats?fref=ts

[Judi Lynn]

14. Incredible posting from the Facebook site you spotted:

It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away, but that's exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns.

"Protect!"

Right.

Thank you, Hugh Beaumont.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Mom was a GOP gun rights advocate

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-mother-killed-cops-fatally-shooting-daughters-article-1.2687929?utm_content=buffer23e5d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"According to Christy Sheats Facebook page, she was a gun owner and vocal advocate for the second amendment."

"It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away," Sheats wrote in March on her Facebook page, "but that's exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns."

Horribly tragic. Yup. She and her husband were divorcing. I wonder if she did this to hurt him.

[Judi Lynn]

15. That's a whole lot of hatred, isn't it, for a God-fearin' Christian woman?

Thank you, Texas Bushwhacker.

[joshcryer]

21. This post on Taylor's (22 y/o daughter) FB page is chilling:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1223863984290403&set=a.277531695590308.79602.100000004388000

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. Oh my! It makes me wonder if she knew her mother was unhinged

I also find the mom's selfies pretty creepy. The self-inflicted blonde hair, the perfect makeup, the LASHES, the cleavage. Very Stepford Wifey. They say she was only 42, but with all that STUFF she looks older. Pretty, but certainly not younger and definitely someone not comfortable in her own skin.

With a divorce and her youngest being 17, I'm guessing she was looking at a major lifestyle change. No more big house in the burbs. No more perfect life.

They say the cops had been called to the house many times before. I wonder if we'll ever find out what really happened.

[IronLionZion]

18. I know what to do here

we must round up everyone who looks like this terrorist and deport them out of this country immediately. I'll choose which countries to send you all. But we must keep you there until I feel comfortable again. please, think of the children. I'm putting their safety first.



I'm just trying to make America great again! If you don't like it then it's because you hate America and you are giving aid and comfort to our enemies.

America doesn't have time for your Politically Correct bullshit. I've got your safe spaces in Syria and Ukraine where you can have trigger warnings every day.

[Judi Lynn]

20. Someone should have separated her from her children before she shot them, for sure!

It's hard to overlook how much she expressed her hatred toward "lib'ruls" and love for guns. Sounds like a terrorist to me!

I think it might be time to round'em up! We'll hold them all in a day spa. Turn it into an "indefinite spa."

[IronLionZion]

23. She was worried Democrats would take away her ability to protect her children

by taking her semi-automatic handguns.

But from time to time we all feel angry or sad, and it's probably better to not have a dangerous weapon nearby when that happens.

[Judi Lynn]

24. The Texas Mother Who Shot Daughters Had a Mental Illness History, Reports Say

The Texas Mother Who Shot Daughters Had a Mental Illness History, Reports Say

Casey Quackenbush @caseyquack
4:00 AM ET

Her social media posts also indicate that she opposed gun controls


The Texas mother who was killed by police after fatally shooting her two daughters on Friday reportedly had a history of mental illness and actively supported gun rights on Facebook.

The Fort Bend County Sheriff spokeswoman Caitilin Espinosa told People that Christy Sheats’ “mental crisis” had brought the police to her home “for previous altercations.” Further details were not provided.

After receiving 911 reports of shots being fired over an alleged family dispute, police arrived at the Sheats’ home shortly after 5 p.m. to find Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17, lying on the street. The mother was shot dead after she refused to drop her weapon. One daughter died at the scene, and the other after arriving at the hospital.

While Sheats’ motive is still under investigation, People reports that her Facebook posts indicate that she was an active gun rights supporter. In January, People says, Sheats uploaded a meme ridiculing Obama’s views on gun control. In March, she reportedly posted an anti-gun control video with the message, “It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away, but that’s exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns.”

http://time.com/4383298/texas-mother-shot-daughters-christy-sheats-mental-illness/

[JustAnotherGen]

27. Her widower knows what went on

I can't believe the police haven't pummeled him for information.

[Judi Lynn]

28. So true. Now would be a good time for them to get those questions answered.

Maybe he can explain what we're all dying to know: Do guns kill people or do people kill people, as the NRA geniuses love to yammer.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Kick (nt)

[Judi Lynn]

29. Texas mom killed by police after she shot two daughters to death, police say

Texas mom killed by police after she shot two daughters to death, police say

By Katie Mettler

June 27 at 4:35 AM

When police pulled up to the manicured Houston subdivision Friday evening, after a flood of 911 calls directing them there, they found two young women lying in the street, their bodies bleeding from bullet wounds.

Nearby stood their mother, 42-year-old Christy Sheats. In her hand she held a gun.

Authorities demanded she drop her weapon, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office, but she refused. An officer with the Fulshear Police Department opened fire and shot the mother dead.

Sheats’ husband and the girls’ father, Jason Sheats, watched the carnage unfold from afar. Friday was his birthday, neighbors told ABC affiliate KTRK-TV. The couple had recently reunited after a marital separation, they said. The father was uninjured, police told reporters, but he was so distraught he was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/27/texas-mom-killed-by-police-after-she-shot-two-daughters-to-death-police-say/

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‘Don’t do this’: Dad begs wife who fatally shot daughters

By Wilson Dizard
June 27, 2016 | 4:29am

The husband of Texas killer mom Christy Sheats begged her in vain not to shoot their two daughters, a neighbor who witnessed the carnage said Sunday.

“Don’t do this, they’re our kids!” the panicked father, Jason Sheats, screamed to his wife, 42, who shot Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17, before being gunned down herself by cops.

The chilling witness account surfaced two days after the Friday massacre outside the family’s home in suburban Houston.

More:
http://nypost.com/2016/06/27/dont-do-this-dad-begs-wife-who-fatally-shot-daughters/

[ellenrr]

30. in east orange, NJ, a toddler shot his sibling with mother's gun.

i wonder what the mother was doing with a gun..
(lots of restrictions in NJ.)
now perhaps the toddler enters public care (a nightmare)
sad.
an entire family (at least) destroyed.

[Judi Lynn]

33. What a horrible shadow to hang over the life of a tiny child forever, too.

Clearly they have no idea what could happen, but the knowledge as they mature of what happened in their past could have only the worst effects.

Didn't know about NJ's restrictions. So glad to hear it. Thanks.

[Judi Lynn]

34. Katy shooting that left three dead started with 'family meeting'

Katy shooting that left three dead started with 'family meeting'

By Samantha Ketterer and James Pinkerton

Updated 8:09 pm, Monday, June 27, 2016

The Fort Bend County sheriff's office responded to more than a dozen calls for help - including three attempted suicides - in four years at the troubled Katy home where a family meeting Friday erupted into violence that ended with a mother and two daughters fatally wounded in the street.

But Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said he didn't know if the mental health calls came from Christy Byrd Sheats, 42, a vocal Second Amendment proponent who shot her two daughters before being gunned down by police.

"It just seems like an argument - a domestic disturbance in a family, that turns into a shooting where a mother went out and shot her two daughters - somebody would say she's got mental health issues because who in her right mind would do that," he said.

The girls' father, Jason Sheats, 45, was also targeted in the shooting but escaped unharmed down the cul-de-sac. He is cooperating fully with investigators, Nehls said.

More:
http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/fortbend/news/article/Details-emerge-in-Katy-family-shooting-8327730.php

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. The oldest daughter was to be married today

to her longtime boyfriend. She had just graduated with honors from a local community college. She was going to be a medical sonographer.

[Judi Lynn]

36. How thoughtful of the mother to get into a wild argument with her just before the nuptuals.

You'd think any one would have more common sense, and respect for a child than to pitch a fit at a time like that.

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. Well, I don't know what transpired at the meeting

but I suppose we'll find out eventually since the dad is still alive. Her daughter's fiance is latino. I wonder if mom didn't approve. Or perhaps she didn't want her to marry young like she had. In any case, nothing deserving of the death penalty.