Florida man shoots wife, daughter, then himself, deputies say

Just three days before Christmas, a man shot and killed his wife, shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter and then shot and killed himself, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.PCSO is investigating the incident as a murder-suicide.Deputies responded to a home on Lemon Avenue in the Highland City area of Lakeland after receiving a 911 call around 11 p.m. The caller said her 12-year-old neighbor ran to her house and asked her to call 911 because his stepfather and mother were fighting, according to deputies. He told the woman his mom, Crystal, asked him to call 911 as the argument was escalating, PCSO said. Deputies arrived minutes later and said they located Crystal with a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead on the scene. PCSO also located a 13-year-old girl, the victim’s daughter, in her bedroom with two gunshot wounds. She was taken to the hospital, where she is in critical but stable condition. Deputies also found their 1-year-old daughter asleep in her crib, unharmed.Investigators determined 47-year-old Jason Kenney was in his shed when he decided to go back inside the house to watch the end of an NFL game in the living room, where his wife was. Crystal told him that she didn’t want to watch football, and an argument ensued, PCSO said.Deputies said she then shouted to her son, asking him to call 911, which is when he ran from the house and said he heard a single shot go off.Kenney fled the scene in his truck after shooting his wife. He called his sister, who is not in Florida, and told her he had done something bad, and he was not going to jail.Kenney told his sister she would “see it on the news.”After deputies found Kenney at his father’s home in Lake Wales, they told him to come outside. That’s when they heard a single gunshot, PCSO said.PCSO entered the shed on his father’s property to find Kenney had shot himself in the head. Kenney was pronounced dead at the scene. “Three days before Christmas, this man shot and killed his wife, shot his stepdaughter, and then shot and killed himself. This is horrific, but destroying a family and the mental health of these children so close to Christmas is especially horrific. We will do everything we can to help this family get through this difficult time,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.The 13-year-old remains in critical condition, and the other two children are with their grandparents.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. —

Just three days before Christmas, a man shot and killed his wife, shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter and then shot and killed himself, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

PCSO is investigating the incident as a murder-suicide.

Deputies responded to a home on Lemon Avenue in the Highland City area of Lakeland after receiving a 911 call around 11 p.m.

The caller said her 12-year-old neighbor ran to her house and asked her to call 911 because his stepfather and mother were fighting, according to deputies.

He told the woman his mom, Crystal, asked him to call 911 as the argument was escalating, PCSO said.

Deputies arrived minutes later and said they located Crystal with a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

PCSO also located a 13-year-old girl, the victim’s daughter, in her bedroom with two gunshot wounds. She was taken to the hospital, where she is in critical but stable condition.

Deputies also found their 1-year-old daughter asleep in her crib, unharmed.

Investigators determined 47-year-old Jason Kenney was in his shed when he decided to go back inside the house to watch the end of an NFL game in the living room, where his wife was.

Crystal told him that she didn’t want to watch football, and an argument ensued, PCSO said.

Deputies said she then shouted to her son, asking him to call 911, which is when he ran from the house and said he heard a single shot go off.

Kenney fled the scene in his truck after shooting his wife. He called his sister, who is not in Florida, and told her he had done something bad, and he was not going to jail.

Kenney told his sister she would “see it on the news.”

After deputies found Kenney at his father’s home in Lake Wales, they told him to come outside. That’s when they heard a single gunshot, PCSO said.

PCSO entered the shed on his father’s property to find Kenney had shot himself in the head. Kenney was pronounced dead at the scene.

“Three days before Christmas, this man shot and killed his wife, shot his stepdaughter, and then shot and killed himself. This is horrific, but destroying a family and the mental health of these children so close to Christmas is especially horrific. We will do everything we can to help this family get through this difficult time,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.

The 13-year-old remains in critical condition, and the other two children are with their grandparents.