Crime Woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children

[The Helper]

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 38-year-old woman entered the Texas Health and Human Services Commission office in downtown Laredo on Monday afternoon and demanded to speak to a supervisor, said investigator Joe Baeza of the Laredo Police Department.

The woman, whom he declined to identify, pulled out a handgun and started walking through the office, threatening several employees, he said.

"She had issues and felt that she had been let down by social services in general," Baeza told Reuters on Tuesday. "She was making all sorts of outlandish claims."

Woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children

A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[camelCase]

And I was only recently made aware that America's food banks couldn't handle the demand =/
Ironically, my friend, who told me about it, lives in Texas, too..

 

[Slapshot136]

im pretty sure the order is she shot the children, and then herself.. why do journalists need to edit everything?

 

[eellem1]

Wow!! She would have rather killed her children than have them starve to death. Not the first story of this nature. It is VERY hard right now, many, many people out of work, have no home and need to feed their children. Sad, just sad!!

 

[MasterOfABCs]

Here in Texas, all I hear about is how, when compared to other states, we have very little economic peril.

Apparently, that isn't entirely true.

This is a strange time.

 

[Accname]

People in the USA are starving to death in the 21 century? This shatters my opinion about first world countries quite a bit.

 

[UnknowVector]

Wow!! She would have rather killed her children than have them starve to death. Not the first story of this nature. It is VERY hard right now, many, many people out of work, have no home and need to feed their children. Sad, just sad!!

People in the USA are starving to death in the 21 century? This shatters my opinion about first world countries quite a bit.

Wait a minute where are you getting this? Applying for food stamps and outright starving to death are a world apart. The story says her application was denied because it was incomplete, if she hadn't started taking hostages she probably could have gotten it straightened out while she was there. I think you guys have misconstrued this, she shot her kids because she was insane.

 

[FireCat]

Oh crap Poor kids didn't deserve this.

Her application was denied because it was incomplete.

But for fuck's sake they couldn't help her?

 

[Dan]

Oh crap Poor kids didn't deserve this.
But for fuck's sake they couldn't help her?

Well it's hard to help someone who is making a scene... >.<