Authorities say police shot 42-year-old Christy Sheats after she stepped outside her house with a gun. Newslook
HOUSTON — Texas authorities on Tuesday released 911 recordings that captured the terrifying final moments in which two sisters were fatally shot by their mother, who later was shot and killed by police.
Madison and Taylor Sheats both called 911 before their mother, Christy Sheats, shot them at their home in Katy, outside of Houston. Their father, Jason Sheats, could be heard begging his wife not to shoot them as the girls screamed in the background.
“Please don’t point the gun at us … I beg you, please put it away,” Jason Sheats pleaded. “I’m sorry. I promise you, whatever you want.”
Madison Davey, a family friend, said Christy had hidden the gun in a couch’s cushions before she called a family meeting. When she pulled out the gun, Jason tried to push the girls out the front door, Davey said.
Madison Sheats, 17, was shot just as she made it outside. She collapsed and died later at a hospital.
Taylor Sheats, 22, was shot once while inside the home. Christy Sheats followed her outside and shot her again. Then she went inside, reloaded and shot Taylor a third time, according to Fort Bend County investigators.
"She's coming back again. Oh! She shot her again. The female that was lying on the ground," a neighbor told the 911 dispatcher.
That's when a Fulshear police officer shot and killed Christy Sheats.
"I can hear bullets," the neighbor said. "She (the shooter) is lying down. ... It doesn't look like she's moving anymore."
Jason Sheats ran to a neighbor’s house for help. He wasn’t shot.
Witnesses said that before the shootings, Christy Sheats yelled that she wanted her husband to suffer. The shootings occurred on his birthday.
Davey said the couple had marital problems and Christy Sheats had moved out for a while and had recently moved back in.
Taylor Sheats had planned to marry her longtime boyfriend on Monday at the courthouse, Davey said. She graduated from Lone Star College but wanted to return to school for a degree in art or teaching.
Madison was going to be a senior at Seven Lakes High School.
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