Michigan mom, 28, shot her three young daughters dead with a hunting rifle before driving their bodies to her boyfriend's home and killing herself
- Aubrianne Moore, 28, was found shot dead in her car with daughters Kyrie Rodery, 8, Cassidy Rodery, 6, and Alaina Rau, 2, in Cedar Springs on Monday
- Police say Moore took the girls into the woods and shot them with a hunting rifle
- She put the bodies in her car, drove to her boyfriend's home and shot herself
- Investigators believe the mother committed the triple-murder suicide because she suffers from mental illness
- She had been diagnosed with 'unspecified schizophrenia' and 'psychosis' and was involuntarily hospitalized for 10 days in September 2018
New details have emerged in the case of a mother found shot dead in a car with her three young children in rural Michigan earlier this week.
Authorities say 28-year-old Aubrianne Moore took her three daughters, eight-year-old Kyrie Rodery, six-year-old Cassidy Rodery and two-year-old Alaina Rau, out to a wooded area near Cedar Springs on Monday and shot them with a hunting rifle.
She then loaded the children's bodies back into her car, drove to her boyfriend's home and shot herself. The boyfriend and father of the youngest daughter discovered the gruesome scene about an hour and a half later.
'We don't know what was going through her head, she didn't leave a suicide note or anything like that,' Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young told MLive on Wednesday.
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Aubrianne Moore, 28, (above) shot her three young daughters and herself on Monday in Cedar Rapids, Michigan, authorities have confirmed. Investigators believe she carried out the shocking triple murder-suicide because she suffered from mental illness
Moore allegedly brought her three daughters, eight-year-old Kyrie Rodery (center), six-year-old Cassidy Rodery (right) and two-year-old Alaina Rau (left), out to a wooded area near Cedar Springs on Monday and shot them with a hunting rifle. She then loaded the children's bodies back into her car, drove to her boyfriend's home and shot herself
Investigators believe Moore committed triple murder-suicide because she was suffering from mental illness.
'Mom appears to have been struggling with pretty substantial mental health issues,' LaJoye-Young said.
'She had some postings on Facebook and things like that that lead to believe she was paranoid and thought that the kids were in jeopardy somehow. We suspect that led to the events this day.'
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Moore had been diagnosed with 'unspecified schizophrenia' and 'psychosis' in September 2018 and was involuntarily hospitalized for 10 days, according to NewayGo County Probate Court records.
In a petition requesting the hospitalization, a social worker wrote that Moore was paranoid and had visual and auditory hallucinations.
'Aubrianne is keeping her kids home from school because the television told her there would be a school bus accident today,' the social worker wrote in the September 17 note obtained by MLive.
'Aubrianne stays awake at night believing people will break into her home. Aubrianne is not eating, believing food is being poisoned.'
Moore had been diagnosed with 'unspecified schizophrenia' and 'psychosis' and involuntarily hospitalized in September 2018. The 28-year-old is pictured (right) with her friend Kasey Jo
The boyfriend and father of the youngest daughter, Alaina Rau (above), discovered the four bodies outside his home at around 3pm on Monday
Victims Cassidy Rodery, six, (left) and Kyrie Rodery, eight, (center), are pictured above
LaJoye-Young said this case has been one of the most difficult that she's had to handle in her 29 years in law enforcement.
'This is one of the hardest cases I've ever heard about. This is a very difficult case,' she said on Wednesday. 'Our investigators are feeling it. It's heartbreaking that something like this happened in our community.
'I'm heartbroken for the family and for everybody involved and the community at large, because this is not something that's easy for us to not wonder what could have been done differently, what could we have done to help.'
A GoFundMe campaign set up by Moore's brother, Robert Graham, has raised more than $6,300 as of Thursday morning.
Graham said any money left over after funeral costs are covered will be used 'for legal purposes (trying to figure out how Aubrianne was neglected by doctors and treated to a lesser degree of help than what she needed)'.
For confidential support call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255
Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young said the triple-murder suicide was one of the most difficult cases she has seen in her 29 years with law enforcement. Investigators are seen near the home where the bodies were found on Monday afternoon
LaJoye-Young says authorities responded Monday at around 3pm to a property near Cedar Springs, a community about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids
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