Very sad.....
.Shortly before 9 p.m., a Gwinnett County police officer responded to a suicide attempt at a home in the 3000 block of Tracey Drive, police said.

“A mother called about her daughter,” police spokeswoman Cpl. Illana Spellman said. “The daughter made threats that she wanted police to kill her.”

While the officer and mother were talking, the daughter came downstairs holding a gun that she pointed at the officer, Spellman said.

Feeling threatened, the officer fired, Spellman said.

Both women were hit, police said.

The mother was killed.

The daughter was injured, and taken to a nearby hospital, police said.

“We don’t know if the mother stepped into the officer’s line of fire,” Spellman said.

Crime scene and shoot team investigators are on the scene to determine what happened, she said.

The incident is still under investigation.
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Graycap23 said:

Personally, I believe that it was a mother's instinct at work: protecting her daughter and she paid with her life.

Sigh.....

You are right, that is very sad. I will pray for the families of all involved.

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Graycap23 said:

Can a mother's tender loving care cease towards the child she bears?

dseann said:

Never truly I think. Even if it is denied or put away, there's still a part of yourself in there that can never be replaced.

NMuzakNSoul said:

It's the natural order of things anyway. No parent should have to bury their child. Should always be the other way around. Hope the daughter snaps out of her shit now or at least tries to get help for whatever's fucking her mind up.

This is horrible.


I wonder what the girl was going through. I can't imagine that much psychological pain. I know people always say that people who kill themselves are selfish but I still feel for them.

Everybody loses in this case.

dseann said:

Me too man, hope so. I mean, if this ain't a hell of a wake up call I don't know what is.

so very sad!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I understand what you are saying, but even though this situation is sad and terrible in itself, the daughter's selfishness in wanting to commit suicide resulted in her mother being killed. Had she wanted to get help for whatever she was going through and not give up on life, her mother would still be alive. I know some people may disagree, but thats the truth. No we don't know what people go through, and some go through a whole hell of a lot, but in my view, giving up is the coward's way out. Its how you get through all of the mess that makes you stronger, not giving up.

Why are cops so quick to fire deadly shots anyway? what happen to shooting in the arm or leg just to disable the person with the gun? what happened to warning shots? this poor mom. and the poor daughter. not only did her suicide by cop attempt fail, her mother is dead which will most likely make her even more suicidal.

DesireeNevermind said:

right. Now I can get what you are saying about the cop thing, he didn't have to shoot to KILL right at that moment. I'm thinking mom dukes got in the way of his firing....either way, if the daughter thought she was suicidal then, she should definitely be suicidal now. Thats why committing suicide isn't the way to go.
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Maybe, but you can also go from one extreme to the other. Like I said, it is a hell of a wake up call. If this won't wake her ass up and get real then nothing will. Sad.

That's so sad. Now, not only does this person have to deal with whatever it is that was eating them up inside, they have to live with how their actions resulted in their mother's death. They are going to need a lot of help, I hope they get it.

dseann said:

Yes

And why get a cop to come and shoot you in your own home in front of your mom? What kind of crazy is that?

SUPRMAN said:

Indeed

I have watched for over 24 yrs now the total lack of it overall from our older kids biounitmom - she is cold, detached and distant with very little concern overall

DesireeNevermind said:

The daughter, whom the cop was aiming at, was only wounded. So he was not shooting to kill. How the mother ended up being fatally shot sounds like she tried to shield her daughter.

SUPRMAN said:

Then perhaps she was pleading with both of them to not shoot? I think the cop used poor judgement. He should have maybe called for back up or should have coerced the mom into stepping out of the way. I mean the mom was the one who called the cops so I doubt she was expecting them to just starting shooting.
Just terrible.

DesireeNevermind said:

I have a feeling that if you thought someone was about to try and shoot you dead, you wouldn't aim to wound.

missfee said:

I totally hear what you are saying. We all choose different ways to handle what we're going through. I choose to FEEL absolutely everything and not give up.

DesireeNevermind said:

Unfortunately, if the gun comes out. That's all the reason there is to shoot.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

well there's plenty instances where people are shot dead with no gun too.

DesireeNevermind said:

It's horrible isn't it.

What I hate to hear about is random shootings where a bullet goes through an apartment and hits an innocent person. Children especially. Ughh. This has been happening a lot in the the San Francisco bay area. It kills me.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

This is a bit off the subject but I always wondered why fools shoot guns in the air. Don't they know the bullets have 2 come back down?

Graycap23 said:

for realz


gun possession should require an IQ test. LOL

errr, wait a minute. Is that the title originally with the article?

morningsong said:

No.....the daughter died later.....