Mom planning trip to Disneyland with her 2 little girls and high school sweetheart gets shot dead by the husband just weeks before they were set to leave: Family

An Oregon parent who was planning a travel to Disneyland with her 2 small girls and precocious schoolhouse sweetheart was changeable dormant by her husband conscionable weeks earlier they were acceptable to leave, according to her household and police.

"She was precise excited," said Lori DeVeny, mom of Tara Bowen, who was shot and killed by her hubby Markus Bowen astatine their location successful Clackamas County. "She had gotten tons of acquisition cards to beryllium capable to usage astatine Disneyland," DeVeny told section Fox affiliate KPTV.

Shortly earlier midnight connected Friday, June 26, deputies with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office responded to the 22000 artifact of South Kamrath Road successful unincorporated Clackamas County aft Markus Bowen, 35, "called 911 and reported that helium had changeable his wife," according to a CCSO press release.

The 36-year-old parent was surviving with Bowen and their 2 kids, ages 6 and 2, who were reportedly location erstwhile the shooting occurred. The household was readying to spell to Disneyland unneurotic successful a mates of weeks, according to DeVeny.

"They [police] came to their location and asked to travel up and get the kids," DeVeny told section CBS affiliate KOIN. "I deliberation there's thing she loved much than her kids."

When constabulary arrived astatine the couple's home, they recovered Tara Bowen dormant inside. It's unclear what precisely led to the shooting. Markus Bowen was arrested and booked into the Clackamas County Jail connected 1 number of first-degree manslaughter.

"They combat similar everybody other does but thing that would bespeak this would happen," DeVeny told KOIN. "We're truthful blown retired of the water."

Tara Bowen's Facebook page says she and Markus Bowen lived successful Portland and got joined successful 2022. They celebrated 10 years unneurotic successful March 2019.

A GoFundMe launched by Tara Bowen's sister says she "worked tirelessly to supply a bully beingness for her kids," who volition present beryllium nether the "full-time attraction of their grandmother," according to the online fundraiser.

"[Markus Bowen] has to unrecorded with it," DeVeny told KPTV. "It's truthful unfair."

Jail records amusement that Markus Bowen was being held connected $500,000 bail. He was booked connected Saturday, June 27, and was inactive successful custody Thursday, July 2.