Overview
- Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the 13-year-old victim remains alert and in critical but stable condition at Lakeland Regional Health.
- Deputies say 47-year-old Jason Kenney shot his wife and stepdaughter, fled, then died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot in a shed at his late father’s Lake Wales property.
- The confrontation began when Crystal Kenney told her 12-year-old son to call 911 during an argument over watching the end of an NFL game, and the boy ran to a neighbor and heard a gunshot.
- A one-year-old was found unharmed in a crib, and the three children have been placed in their grandparents’ care, according to authorities.
- Detectives reported finding a note in the home pleading for Kenney to stop using cocaine and alcohol, and said there were no prior domestic-violence records despite family reports of past abuse.