A Florida mother is being remembered as a hero after she was shot defending her youngsters when her husband flew right into a violent rage over a night NFL recreation.
Jason Kenney, 47, shot and killed his spouse, Crystal Roure, 38, earlier than turning the gun on himself simply three days earlier than Christmas, the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a press release.
Kenney had been consuming whereas watching Monday Night time Soccer inside his shed – situated on the household’s Highland Metropolis dwelling – when he got here inside to observe the top of the sport at round 11 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2025, authorities stated.
Upon coming into the house, a struggle ensued between the couple after Roure stated she didn’t wish to watch soccer, based on police.
Because the altercation escalated, Roure yelled for her 12-year-old son to run to a close-by neighbor’s home and name 911, and he heard a single gunshot as he was fleeing the house.
Responding deputies subsequently discovered Roure useless within the household’s front room with a gunshot wound to her head, and her 13-year-old daughter affected by two gunshot wounds whereas in her mattress. The couple’s 1-year-old little one was additionally discovered asleep in her crib, unhurt.
The teenager survived the taking pictures after the bullet struck her nostril and ricocheted by the highest of her head, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stated in a information convention.
“She stated, ‘I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me. And he shot me anyway,’” Judd stated, referring to Kenney’s teen stepdaughter.
Authorities additionally found an undated letter Roure wrote to Kenney, telling him: “You’re consuming, you’re utilizing cocaine once more. This isn’t the best way a household ought to be. You want God.”
Instantly following the taking pictures of his spouse and stepdaughter, police say Kenney fled the realm in his truck and referred to as his sister to inform her he “had carried out one thing actually dangerous and he was not going to jail.” Kenney reportedly added that she would “see it on the information,” earlier than driving to his deceased father’s dwelling in Lake Wales and coming into a shed on the property.
When officers arrived and commenced yelling for Kenney to return outdoors, they heard a single gunshot and finally discovered him deceased from an obvious self-inflicted wound to the pinnacle.
“He completely destroyed a household,” Judd stated. “If you go in there, there’s a stunning Christmas tree with a number of Christmas presents below the tree, identical to the nuclear household ought to be, and it finally ends up this manner.”
Judd revealed that relations of the household advised investigators that Kenney had been abusing his spouse “for some time,” regardless of the sheriff’s workplace having no information of any home violence calls concerning the couple. Moreover, Kenney had no prison historical past, Judd added.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
“After they have been married, I do know she stated he was consuming much more however she stated that he was going to cease and stated he would get assist with it. Clearly that didn’t occur,” Roure’s sister, Stephanie Roure, advised USA Right now.
“My sister died a hero for safeguarding her youngsters and getting my nephew out of the home to make the 911 name,” Stephanie Roure reportedly stated. “She did that. She saved their lives and by doing so my nephew saved his sister’s life, and thank God the infant was untouched.”
