LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — Even after the deaths of of three sisters and their mother in northern Kent County earlier this week wereruled a triple murder-suicide, questions remain. Chief among them: Could it have been prevented?
Authorities say Aubrianne Moore shot and killed her children — 2-year-old Alaina Rau, 6-year-old Cassidy Rodery and 8-year-old Kyrie Rodery — before taking her own life northwest of Cedar SpringsMonday. According to court records, Moore had a history of mental illness, but she still had custody of her kids.
"This is a tragedy that no one ever wants to face," Dr. George Mellos, the deputy director of theBehavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrationat the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, said Thursday. "Everyone is traumatized."
Mellos heads up Michigan's mental health programs. When asked by 24 Hour News 8 Thursday if the system failed Moore and her daughters, he replied, "I'm not sure what you mean by 'the system.'"