NEW ORLEANS — One can only imagine what might have been going through the mind of a 29-year-old mother of three, when she raised her gun and pulled the trigger on her six month old, her one year old and her 12-year-old daughters, and then turning the gun on herself.

Before the New Orleans native Nadia Braxton killed her children and herself, her preacher says she reached out for help.

Kenneth Taylor of Elysian Fields Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans told police last week “She felt hopeless, full of anxiety, she didn’t know what to do. She needed God to tell her whether she belongs here.”

Taylor offered his advice, prayers, inspirational readings and a suggested Braxton call him for help. The mother called the pastor Tuesday morning, hours before she killed herself and her children.

Pastor Taylor was busy with the church’s day camp, and decided to return the call later that afternoon. “I tried back Tuesday about 4 o’clock,” Taylor said. “There was no answer.”

Later that evening, Braxton’s long time companion and father to the three murdered children, Ronald Peters, came home to a gruesome discovery. All three girls, Kayla, 12, Nayah, 1 and Nyla, 6 months, laid in Kayla’s bed with a bullet hole in their head and Braxton laid on top of Kayla, also with a bullet hole to the head. Peters called 911 in shock, telling them that his entire family was dead in bed.

Pictured: 12-year-old Kayla Peters and her 1-year-old sister Nayah were found murdered with their 6-month-old sister Nyla.