{"id":17294,"date":"2012-10-08T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2012-10-08T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:59:13","slug":"mom-of-4-drunk-when-she-shot-her-kids-and-herself-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17294","title":{"rendered":"Mom Of 4 Drunk When She Shot Her Kids And Herself Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother who shot her four children and herself dead at her Port St. John, Fla., home on May 15 had two times the legal limit of alcohol in her system.<\/p>\n<p>For reasons unknown to family and friends,<strong> Tonya Thomas<\/strong>, 33, used a Taurus .38-caliber revolver to fire shots into her children<strong> Joel Johnson<\/strong>, 12, <strong>Jazzlyn Johnson<\/strong>, 13, <strong>Jaxs Johnson<\/strong>, 15, and <strong>Pebbles Johnson<\/strong>, 17, before killing herself within a 35 minute period.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, three of <strong>Thomas\u2019<\/strong> children ran to a neighbor\u2019s house before the mother called them back home, according to police. Though, an autopsy report states that <strong>Pebbles<\/strong> likely passed out after returning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas<\/strong> was found dead on her couch from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The gun was still in her hand when cops found her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother who shot her four children and herself dead at her Port St. John, Fla., home on May 15 had two times the legal limit of alcohol in her system. For reasons unknown to family and friends, Tonya Thomas, 33, used a Taurus .38-caliber revolver to fire shots into her children Joel Johnson, 12, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}