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A woman in a Wyoming town shot her four young daughters in the
head, killing or fatally wounding three of them before shooting
herself, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
The 32-year-old woman and surviving 7-year-old daughter were
hospitalized after the shootings Monday afternoon in Byron, a
town of about 600 people 14 miles (23 kilometers) south of the
Montana line.
Their conditions weren't immediately available Tuesday, the Big
Horn County Sheriff's office said in a statement. Neither was
reported present at a hospital in nearby Cody and a phone
message left at a hospital in nearby Lovell wasn't immediately
returned.
The woman, whose name wasn't released, had called 911 to report
she had shot and killed her four daughters and planned to kill
herself, according to the statement.
A dispatcher tried to keep her on the line but was disconnected.
Police arrived at the home within minutes to find the woman
alive in a bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head, and two of
the girls, ages 2 and 9, dead in their crib and bed.
A third daughter, also age 2, died soon after police arrived.
The “nightmare” scene found by officers “should be something
that no one should have to endure,” Sheriff Ken Blackburn said
in the statement.
The statement said the investigation is continuing.
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