'Ending relationships': Man crashed GMC pickup into house then blew away his wife and mother-in-law, sheriff says

A Texas antheral is down bars aft plowing his motortruck into a location and past shooting and killing his estranged woman and mother-in-law, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Lone Star State.

Stanley Earl Hardin, 57, stands accused of 2 counts of capital murder, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.

The underlying incidental occurred Monday day connected Shoreview Drive successful Conroe — a ample metropolis immoderate 40 miles northbound of Houston — and took the beingness of 50-year-old Tara Hardin, his wife, and 80-year-old Floris Wolford, her mother, according to the sheriff's office.

Around 2 p.m., a 911 telephone came successful from the defendant's estranged wife, Montgomery County Sheriff Wesley Doolittle said during a property league covered by Houston-based ABC affiliate KTRK.

The pistillate told dispatchers that her hubby had crashed his conveyance into her location and was making his mode inside, authorities said.

Shortly after, shots rang out; Hardin had entered the residence, according to police, and fired aggregate rounds, sidesplitting the victims.

Both women were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

In footage of the aftermath obtained by KTRK, a achromatic GMC Sierra pickup motortruck is seen crashed and lodged into the beforehand of the house, having torn done vinyl siding, insulation, and a ample window.

After the shooting, the suspect fled to his son's location connected ft and asked to beryllium driven to his ain location immoderate 5 miles distant from wherever the killings occurred, according to the sheriff's office.

The suspect yet surrendered to constabulary astatine a residence connected Ivy Lane without incident, according to instrumentality enforcement. The surrender occurred, however, with the beingness of SWAT squad members due to the fact that authorities were prepared for the anticipation of further violence, the sheriff said.

"They had acceptable up a perimeter anticipating that it mightiness beryllium worse than what they had believed," Doolittle said during the property conference, according to the Houston Chronicle. "There was accusation that helium would sprout it retired with instrumentality enforcement. It's my content that helium talked to a household subordinate and that helium surrendered to our deputies astatine that scene."

Investigators judge the mates had precocious separated and that Hardin's woman was staying with her parent astatine the time. By each indications, the estrangement was successful the precise aboriginal stages.

In comments to the TV station, neighbors said Tara Hardin had been seen astatine the husband's location arsenic precocious arsenic past week. The mates has big children and antecedently lived unneurotic for years, neighbors added, saying immoderate problems betwixt the brace were not nationalist knowledge.

"When determination is precocious emotion, radical are ending relationships and such, I would archer folks to interaction the Montgomery County women's structure if they judge they are successful danger," Doolittle said.

The probe is said to beryllium ongoing.

Hardin is being detained successful the Montgomery County Jail with nary bond. The suspect has been identified arsenic a subject seasoned by instrumentality enforcement.

"The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office extends our deepest sympathies to the household and friends of the victims," a connection issued connected Facebook reads. "We admit the profound interaction this calamity has had connected our assemblage and are committed to seeking justness for these women and their loved ones."