Video After The Phone
A mother shot her 3 children inside a home on the south side of Winston-Salem while on a Facetime call on Tuesday.
The mother then apparently shot herself, police said.
The person at the other end of the call witnessed the shootings.
The dead were: sisters Sakendra Syann Steele, 9; Sakenya Syretha Steele, 12; their brother, Sakenlo Shawn Steele Jr., 14; & the children’s mother, Ethel Syretha Steele, who was 40 years old.
The bodies of the 4 were found at 3140 Brookhill Drive, where police arrived to find the house locked after receiving a report of a shooting at 11:54 a.m. on Tuesday.
The house is in a normally quiet residential neighborhood.
Winston-Salem police forced entry into the locked home & found the bodies of the 3 children & their mother.
The mother shot the youngest girl first, police believe. Then the older girl jumped up & screamed before she was shot twice. The boy was the last of the children to be shot.
Police have not said where the family’s bodies were found.
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Source: Winston-Salem Journal
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