a man from florida He shot his wife, seriously injured his stepdaughter and then killed himself after an argument between parents over turning the channel on “Monday Night Football,” authorities said.
Jason Kenney, 47, was watching his favorite team San Francisco 49ers beat Indianapolis Colts When wife Crystal Kenny, 38, “told him she didn’t want to watch football anymore”, according to a Statement from the Polk County Sheriff.
Jason Kenny was “drinking during the evening” in Lakeland and at about 11 p.m., with The game is well prepared for San Francisco“An argument began when Crystal Kenny suggested they watch something else on television and the argument got really heated,” Sheriff Grady. Judd told reporters,
Crystal Kenny told her 12-year-old son to go to a neighbor to call 911, Grady said, and as the boy left the house, she heard gunshots.
Responding deputies found the body of Crystal Kenny and her critically injured 13-year-old daughter, authorities said. Deputies also found the couple’s baby girl sleeping in her crib, unharmed.
“It’s a Christmas miracle,” Judd said, that the 13-year-old girl was not murdered. “Jason shot her twice and he intended to kill her.”
The girl, who was shot in the face but is expected to survive, found the strength to talk to investigators.
According to Judd, “She said, ‘I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me’ and he shot me anyway.”
According to Judd, the shooter fled, called his sister in New York and told her, “I’ve done something very, very bad, very bad” and “This is the last time you’ll talk to me.”
According to Judd, he told his sister, “‘You’ll see me on the news, but I’m not going to jail. I’m not going to jail for the rest of my life.’
When deputies tracked down the shooter to her late father’s home, Judd said, they heard a single shot coming from a shed on the property.
At the couple’s home, deputies found an undated note from Crystal Kenny in which she told her husband, “You know you’re drinking, you’re using cocaine again,” Judd said, citing the note.
“Family shouldn’t be like this,” he reportedly wrote. “You need God.”
The representative cannot determine when the note was written.
Judd said, “We don’t know when he wrote the note. It’s not dated. There’s no time, no indication, but it was open.” “So did he write it as they debated earlier in the evening? Or did it take some time? We can’t determine that.”
The woman’s family had said she was the victim of regular domestic violence by her husband, Judd said – although no such reports were made to local authorities.
Judd said, “To be honest, I don’t want to sound horrible, but the only thing he did right that night was to shoot himself after those terrible acts.”
Stephanie Raury, the victim’s sister, promised to keep Crystal’s memory alive.
“I would tell my sister I’m sorry this happened to you. You didn’t deserve this. I promise I’ll love your kids so much,” Raury told NBC affiliate WFLA,
“The world deserves to know your story and the kind of person you were. Her children will never know what kind of mother she was. The love and strength she had for them. They will know this. This will never stop.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 8788.
