A South Carolina mother killed the woman she believed was her estranged husband’s girlfriend, then fled the scene and fatally shot her own young children and herself in a gas station parking lot amid a messy divorce and custody dispute, police say.
Jessica Edens, 36, shot and killed Meredith Leigh Rahme, 28, Thursday in her car at her Greenville, South Carolina, apartment complex, Police Chief Ken Miller said at a press conference.
A short time later, Edens was found dead seven miles away in her black Jeep in the parking lot of a Speedway gas station in Pickens, South Carolina. Her 5-year-old daughter Harper Edens and 9-year-old son Hayden King were also found dead in the car. All three had been shot with a .40-caliber pistol, police said. [Read Full Article]