In Florida, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office is checking out a really sad incident involving a mom and her two little twins.
Sheriff Dennis Lemma, in a chat with the press on Friday, shared the lowdown on a tragic event that they're calling a one-off murder-suicide. He mentioned that in the wee hours of Friday, the cops got a call from someone who saw a car stop on the SR-417 bridge. They said a woman slid out of the passenger window and jumped into the St. Johns River, seemingly trying to end it all.
The deputies rushed to the scene and found a lady floating in the river. They asked for help from two nearby fishermen, and one of them was an off-duty Seminole County firefighter.
The victim was a 31-year-old named Catorreia Hutto, who would've turned 32 soon. The sheriff made it clear that there was no history of such incidents involving her.
During the press meeting, Sheriff Lemma told everyone that Hutto had no past troubles and lived with her five-year-old twins, Ahmed and Ava Jackson. The deputies did a wellness check at Hutto's crib, initially finding the kids seemingly asleep. It's really heartbreaking, but later they found out that the kids had also passed away.
Sheriff Lemma said, 'It's a real tearjerker where a mom takes a dive off the bridge, seems like suicide, and there's a terrible situation inside the house.'
The deputies first checked the kids' welfare but later had to get a search warrant to do a thorough inspection. Inside the house, they couldn't spot any signs of violence towards the kids like blood pools, but they did find a gun on the bedroom floor and some live bullets lying around.
Sheriff Lemma noticed that the house didn't seem to have enough food or furniture, suggesting they might have been tight on money. However, he also said stuff like the house being built with Habitat for Humanity didn't seem connected to the tragic events.
Hutto's last phone call was to her mother, but it went unanswered. The authorities also talked to Hutto's mom, who thought it was one of the kids calling and didn't call back.
The Florida Department of Children and Families came to the scene too, stating they had never dealt with Hutto or her kids before.
Right now, nobody they've spoken to gives the impression that Hutto was in a suicidal or homicidal state or needed urgent help. Hutto's mom mentioned her lifelong struggle with depression, but there were no signs she'd go to such extremes with her kids or herself.
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