Officers responding to a welfare check on a family in an upscale gated community in Tampa found two teenagers shot to death and their mother completely covered in blood.
According to Tampa police spokesperson Laura McElroy, officers received a call early Friday morning from a woman in Texas, who was concerned about her 50-year-old daughter and her two grandchildren.
The woman told officers that her daughter, Julie Powers Schenecker had been complaining about her two teenage children and had been depressed.
When officers arrived at the home they found Schenecker on her back porch covered in blood.
Officers entered the home and found Schenecker’s 16-year-old daughter, Calyx Powers, in an upstairs bedroom. They later found her 13-year-old son Powers Beau dead in an SUV in the garage.
Police said both kids were shot in the head with a .38-caliber pistol.
According to McElroy, Schenecker, whose husband is an Army colonel serving in Qatar, wrote a detailed note outlining her plans to kill her disrespectful children then herself. She said in the note Schenecker said “they talked back and were mouthy and that she was going to take care of it,” McElroy said.
Schenecker was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Parker Schenecker was notified of his children’s death Friday afternoon.
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