Overview
- The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says Jason Kenney, 47, fatally shot his wife, wounded her 13-year-old daughter, and later killed himself after fleeing their Lakeland home.
- The 13-year-old remains hospitalized in critical condition and told investigators she begged him not to shoot, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.
- Investigators recovered a note at the home in which Crystal Kenney urged her husband to seek help for addiction, with references to cocaine use.
- After the attack, Kenney called his sister in New York to confess, then went to his father’s property, where he shot himself in a shed as deputies tried to contact him.
- A 12-year-old son escaped to a neighbor to call 911 and a 1-year-old was found unharmed, with both children now in their grandparents’ care as friends publicly mourn the victim.