Mom massacres her 2 kids, sends 'horrific' texts to their dad showing 1 of the children bleeding from head that said she was in the middle of killing them

An Arizona parent massacred her 2 children — an 18-month-old and a 10-year-old — past changeable herself aft sending horrific substance messages to their begetter saying she was sidesplitting them. She had besides tried to instrumentality the dad's life.

Local constabulary accidental the mom, Andrea Davis, 38, sent her husband aggregate messages earlier carrying retired the killings connected Monday conscionable aft midnight, including a substance that contained a photograph showing 1 of the children bleeding from their head.

The shooting deaths came aft Davis opened occurrence connected her hubby astatine the Tailgaters Bar successful the 6000 artifact of West Bell Road successful Glendale precocious Sunday nighttime portion helium was successful a car with different woman.

"While our officers were connected the scene, helium was receiving substance messages from his woman informing him that she was going to harm their children," Glendale Police Department spokesperson Jose Santiago told reporters during a press conference. "One of those substance messages did incorporate a photograph wherever 1 of the children wrong the location had already received an injury."

A property merchandise sent retired by Glendale Police said the photograph showed the kid "bleeding from the head." Officers went to Davis' location and recovered her dormant inside, on with the couple's 2 children, Andolan and Austin.

"This was truly conscionable a horrific situation," Santiago said.

One of Davis' longtime friends, Amy Bowers, told AZ Family that she and her hubby were unneurotic for 12 years earlier things spiraled retired of power past twelvemonth pursuing the find of an inappropriate narration the hubby allegedly had with a co-worker.

"This narration that's been going connected … has wholly made her suffer her mind," Bowers alleged. "She hasn't had an contented similar this their full marriage. They haven't had thing similar this travel up before. And truthful I deliberation the daze of that is conscionable a batch for her. She was just, she was not feeling good. And she's been asking for assistance from everybody. Like it's not been secret."

Bowers told AZ Family that Davis' hubby "was talking astir leaving" and she was "stressed" astir that alleged possibility.

"She was like, 'What americium I expected to bash with the kids?'" Bowers said. "I conscionable consciousness truly atrocious for the babies. I mean, they were truly large kids. Really large kids."

Police told reporters that determination had been nary grounds of anterior home unit incidents oregon reports made involving the family. The deaths are inactive being investigated.

"A batch of these times these incidents hap and there's not a batch of accusation that gets reported to us, and past you person immense incidents that happens," Phoenix Police Sgt. Lorraine Fernandez said astatine a property conference. "So, please, I beg of you, if you spot something, delight accidental something. We are present to help. We privation to help."

Fernandez added, "Children are astir innocent. They're what we amusement up for enactment to support each day. It's is simply a precise hard country for everyone astatine this time. So, I tin ideate the family, including the suspect's household successful this instance, are crushed and dealing with a immense calamity today."