Mother Shoots Her Baby At Point Blank Range, Kills Herself - Her Older Kids And Boyfriend Found Dead
Posted on Dec 17, 2011 @ 04:00PM
An Illinois mother shot and killed her 10-month-old baby daughter at point blank range while a horrified neighbor looked on. She then turned the gun on herself in a chilling murder-suicide that left five people dead.
Sara McMeen, 30, was found dead at her home in the small farming town of Emington on Friday afternoon.
Livingston County Coroner Michael Burke said that the woman’s two older children; Skyler Lemke, 8, Ian Lemke, 7, and her live-in boyfriend, Daniel Warren, 29, had been murdered as well. Warren was the father of McMeen's infant daughter Maggie.
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Sheriff Martin Meredith revealed that a semi-automatic pistol was recovered at the scene and called the situation “very gut-wrenching.”
A neighbor, who did not want to be identified, told the Pontiac Daily Reader that she heard around five gunshots around 2.30pm and ran outside to see what was going on.
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“I saw my neighbor in the back yard and she was wrapping her baby daughter in a blanket on the ground,” the woman recalled. “At first I thought maybe she had been startled and dropped her daughter. I asked her if everything was OK. She said, ‘No, everything is not OK.’
“She was standing over the baby and she bent at the waist and shot point-blank. I instinctively ran. I just couldn’t believe it.”
Neighbors revealed that the young family had only moved into the area a few months ago and that while the children were delightful, they heard arguments sometimes between the two adults.
The investigation is continuing.
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Dec 19, 2011 @ 13:00
Dec 19, 2011 @ 08:00
I bet this was a religious kook thinking she was sending the kids to heaven. Crazy puke
Posted Sun, 12/18/2011 - 12:49pm
I simply don't think I can take any more of these gut-wrenching stories. It is just too heartbreaking. On Thursday in Sacramento CA, some nutjob put a 3 yr old in boiling water as punishment for wetting his pants. Just too, too sad.
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:43pm
Funybunny I think you made a good point..like why are we depressing ourselves reading this stuff when we cant help any of it? I think I am going to try to give it a break for a while these things make me sick
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 5:06pm
Funybunny I think you made a good point..like why are we depressing ourselves reading this stuff when we cant help any of it? I think I am going to try to give it a break for a while these things make me sick
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 5:06pm
....yet Lindsay Lohan lives on.
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:36pm
I cant even begin to imagine what the poor people who have to clean up the mess after something like this must feel like..
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:32pm
shooting any of them was horrible but a baby....a sweet innocent vulnerable baby?? leave the family and go somewhere that you wont hurt anyone else..
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:31pm
OMG those poor children!
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:30pm
I dont want to know what was going on in her head..a helpless sweet baby shot?? just horrible
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:29pm
It makes you wonder what was going on inside her head .
Posted Sat, 12/17/2011 - 4:08pm