A mother in Michigan picked her children up from school in the middle of the day, telling school officials they had a doctor appointment, only to take them to a secluded wooded area in Solon Township and shoot them to death.
Kent County Sheriff’s Office detectives told WTKR that the woman, Aubrianne Moore, 28, showed up at her children’s school, took them to lunch and then to a wooded area behind a home on Monday. Once there, she shot them with a bolt-action hunting rifle.
After she shot her children, she put them back in her car and then drove them to her boyfriends home, where she shot herself, authorities said.
About an hour later, Moore’s boyfriend found the bodies of 6-year-old Cassidy Rodery, 8-year-old Kyrie Rodery and his daughter, 2 year old Alain’s Rau inside the vehicle, which was parked in the driveway of his home. Moore’s body was found just outside of the car nearby.
According to court documents, a social worker recommended last September that Moore receive mental health treatment after she began exhibiting strange behaviors.
She was diagnosed with “unspecified schizophrenia,” and it was recommended that she receive 60 days of in-patient treatment at Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids. However, she was discharged on deferral status on September 28th of last year.
Authorities said court documents revealed that Moore was extremely paranoid, doing things like not eating because she thought the food was contaminated, keeping her children home from school because the TV was telling her a school bus crash was going to happen and staying awake all night out of fears that burglars were going to attempt to break into her home.
She was even making statements on her social media pages that indicated she thought her children were in danger and investigators believe this may be what led her to Monday’s heinous act.
Memorial services are being set for the children, but plans for Moore are still pending.
