Three Children Witnessed Mother's Murder and Are Now Orphans

The 5-year-old girl said Sunday that she thinks her mommy is going to get better. Her brother, 6, and sister, 8, are old enough to know better. They saw their father gun down their mother in a rage Friday afternoon and also murder a friend of their mother.

On Sunday afternoon, close family friends and relatives of the three Alexander children huddled at a home in Frontenac and told them the whole truth: that their father was also dead.

This is a story which brings tears to one's eyes, especially considering these three childen have lost their mother in such a brutal manner. And there are two other children who have lost their mother, a friend of the first, as well. They were, apparently, headed to a fish fry at a local Catholic Church when the husband "snapped", using his vehicle to stop hers, then chased down and killed his wife with a 9mm handgun. He then returned and killed the other woman. This was in plain site of his children who were in the mother's SUV.
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