Sara McMeen, a 30-year-old mother from Emington, Il did the unthinkable last night as she brutally shot and killed her three children, her boyfriend and then turned the gun on herself.
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A neighbor spoke with the Associated Press and described what happened as she heard the gunfire.
Annelise Fiedler ran out of her home to see what the noise was. In the yard next door, she saw McMeen hovering over her baby as if she had dropped her. Fiedler asked McMeen if everything was all right.
“She looked at me and said, `No, everything is not all right,'” Then, Fiedler said, McMeen shot the baby. Fiedler fled for her life.
McMeen killed herself, her 29-year-old live-in boyfriend, Daniel Warren, and her three children, 8-year-old Skyler Lemke, 7-year-old Ian Lemke and 10-month-old Maggie Warren, according to police.
Autopsy results released Monday said 10-month-old Maggie Warren had two gunshot wounds in the head and a separate wound where a bullet grazed her neck.
McMeen’s two older children, 8-year-old Skyler Lemke and 7-year-old Ian Lemke, also were shot in the head. Autopsy results showed Skyler died of two gunshot wounds to the head and one to the upper back. Ian was shot once in the head.
Daniel Warren, 29, had gunshot wounds in the back and neck, authorities said.
They said McMeen shot herself in the neck. She was found with a .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun next to her and soot had been deposited on her hands. Shell casings found at the scene were of the same caliber as the handgun.
Two weeks ago, a Texas mother shot her two children inside a welfare office and now McMeen has tragically committed what looks like a murder-suicide. But police still don’t know what the motive behind the shooting was.
A memorial fund has been set up in the names of the three children at the First National Bank in Dwight, Ill.
