{"id":9622,"date":"2011-09-05T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9622"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:40:43","slug":"police-ill-woman-killed-children-with-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9622","title":{"rendered":"Police: Ill. Woman Killed Children  With Shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.<\/strong> &#8212; Authorities said they arrested the woman in St. Louis as she sat with a shotgun on a bench outside KMOV-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in nearby East St. Louis, Ill., responded shortly before to reports of shots fired and found the bodies of a 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy in a bedroom of the family&#8217;s apartment, state police<strong> Capt. James Morrisey<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Autopsies on Thursday determined that each child was shot once in the head at close range with a shotgun and died instantly of the &#8220;devastating&#8221; injuries, said <strong>Danny Haskenhoff<\/strong>, St. Clair County&#8217;s chief deputy coroner.<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s 8-year-old son managed to escape unharmed and was in a relative&#8217;s custody Thursday, <strong>Morrisey<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting marked the latest deadly outburst that victimized children in the struggling city of East St. Louis, evoking memories of a 2006 case in which <strong>Tiffany Hall<\/strong> killed pregnant best friend <strong>Jimella Tunstall,<\/strong> cut<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tunstall&#8217;s<\/strong> fetus from the womb and drowned <strong>Tunstall&#8217;s<\/strong> other three children. Those childrens&#8217; bodies were later found stuffed in the washer and dryer of the <strong>Tunstall<\/strong> family&#8217;s apartment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hall<\/strong> is serving four life sentences in the killings, as well as a 60-year term linked to the fetus&#8217; death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. &#8212; Authorities said they arrested the woman in St. Louis as she sat with a shotgun on a bench outside KMOV-TV. Officers in nearby East St. Louis, Ill., responded shortly before to reports of shots fired and found the bodies of a 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy in a bedroom of [&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-9622","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\/9622","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=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}