World Courant
FESTUS, Monday — A Missouri girl went to a police station Tuesday and informed officers she had fatally shot one in every of her youngsters and drowned the opposite, authorities stated.
Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak stated at a information convention that authorities consider each youngsters had been killed Tuesday morning.
A 9-year-old woman was discovered lifeless within the mom’s automobile, which was parked outdoors the Festus police station, the place the mom had turned herself in. Marshak stated the opposite baby drowned elsewhere. A 2-year-old boy was discovered lifeless in a fountain outdoors a resort close to the St. Louis suburb of Festus.
Marshak stated officers looked for a 3rd baby who was discovered protected.
The mom, from the Festus space, was arrested and the deaths are being investigated as a murder. Their identities haven’t been launched and authorities haven’t launched a attainable motive.
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This story has been corrected to point out {that a} second baby was discovered drowned.
