Post by Clemensbuff on Oct 4, 2011 6:00:37 GMT -6
An employee / friend called me late last night and told me about this and I couldn't believe it. The man who killed his mother & father in-law and wounded his wife and then killed himself worked for me up until about 8 or 9 months ago. I would have never figured him for something like this. It just goes to show that everybody had a breaking point where they just absolutely loose it.
Prayers go out to the family, especially his wife and baby girl.
www.caller.com/news/2011/sep/30/bee-county-authorities-investigating-after-three-d/?print=1
Three dead, one injured Friday after shooting near Beeville
By Steven Alford
Originally published 04:31 p.m., September 30, 2011
Updated 08:04 p.m., September 30, 2011
TULETA β A woman ran screaming and bleeding from her parents home Friday morning after her estranged husband shot her and her parents before turning the gun on himself. He didn't harm his 15-month-old daughter who also was in the home.
Retha Ann Rodgers, 49, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. She was found in the family's living room along with the body of Billy Coy Lowe, 30 of Three Rivers, who Bee County Sheriff's Office investigators say fired the shots.
Kennie Lynn Rodgers, 53, was found lying on the patio with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was rushed to Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville where he died.
Reshay Alyn Rodgers, 25, ran for help after being shot in the shoulder and neck area, Sheriff Carlos Carrizales Jr. said. Rodgers ran across the street to a house on Farm-to-Market Road 1465, about a mile off U.S. Highway 181 near Tuleta, Carrizales said. The neighbors called 911.
Minutes before the 8:43 a.m. 911 call, Rodgers' estranged husband had arrived at her parents' house to discuss their separation and custody of their daughter.
At some point, Lowe shot Rodgers, her mother and her father, with a handgun before turning it on himself.
Lowe died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Carrizales said.
A HALO-Flight crew met paramedics and flew Reshay Rodgers to a Corpus Christi hospital, where she underwent surgery. She remains in stable condition.
The couple's daughter has been placed with relatives in the area.
By Friday afternoon, authorities had left the home. Some motorists slowed as they passed by, craning their neck for a look down the dirt driveway of the property known by neighbors as Armadillo Ranch.
Two parked trucks sat silent in front of the house, as a small U.S. flag flapped on a fence post nearby β one of few sounds coming from the house.
Carrizales said the Rodgers family is well-known around Beeville. Kennie Rodgers who worked in area oil fields and his brother is a fire chief for the Pettus-Tuleta Volunteer Fire Department.
"It's a real shame," Carrizales said. "They were real good people."
Deputies couldn't remember responding to any other incidents at the residence. Rodgers and Lowe shared an address in New Braunfels at one time, according to public records.
This is the first homicide in Bee County in more than five years. The last was in 2005, when Debra Slough, a 45-year-old Corpus Christi nurse, was abducted and later fatally shot in Beeville.
Staff writer Mark Collette contributed to this report
Prayers go out to the family, especially his wife and baby girl.
www.caller.com/news/2011/sep/30/bee-county-authorities-investigating-after-three-d/?print=1
Three dead, one injured Friday after shooting near Beeville
By Steven Alford
Originally published 04:31 p.m., September 30, 2011
Updated 08:04 p.m., September 30, 2011
TULETA β A woman ran screaming and bleeding from her parents home Friday morning after her estranged husband shot her and her parents before turning the gun on himself. He didn't harm his 15-month-old daughter who also was in the home.
Retha Ann Rodgers, 49, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. She was found in the family's living room along with the body of Billy Coy Lowe, 30 of Three Rivers, who Bee County Sheriff's Office investigators say fired the shots.
Kennie Lynn Rodgers, 53, was found lying on the patio with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was rushed to Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville where he died.
Reshay Alyn Rodgers, 25, ran for help after being shot in the shoulder and neck area, Sheriff Carlos Carrizales Jr. said. Rodgers ran across the street to a house on Farm-to-Market Road 1465, about a mile off U.S. Highway 181 near Tuleta, Carrizales said. The neighbors called 911.
Minutes before the 8:43 a.m. 911 call, Rodgers' estranged husband had arrived at her parents' house to discuss their separation and custody of their daughter.
At some point, Lowe shot Rodgers, her mother and her father, with a handgun before turning it on himself.
Lowe died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Carrizales said.
A HALO-Flight crew met paramedics and flew Reshay Rodgers to a Corpus Christi hospital, where she underwent surgery. She remains in stable condition.
The couple's daughter has been placed with relatives in the area.
By Friday afternoon, authorities had left the home. Some motorists slowed as they passed by, craning their neck for a look down the dirt driveway of the property known by neighbors as Armadillo Ranch.
Two parked trucks sat silent in front of the house, as a small U.S. flag flapped on a fence post nearby β one of few sounds coming from the house.
Carrizales said the Rodgers family is well-known around Beeville. Kennie Rodgers who worked in area oil fields and his brother is a fire chief for the Pettus-Tuleta Volunteer Fire Department.
"It's a real shame," Carrizales said. "They were real good people."
Deputies couldn't remember responding to any other incidents at the residence. Rodgers and Lowe shared an address in New Braunfels at one time, according to public records.
This is the first homicide in Bee County in more than five years. The last was in 2005, when Debra Slough, a 45-year-old Corpus Christi nurse, was abducted and later fatally shot in Beeville.
Staff writer Mark Collette contributed to this report