Coroner: Mom killed self, three sons

[The Straight Story]

Coroner: Mom killed self, three sons

By Kelli Wynn

Dayton Daily News

DAYTON | Eight days before the bodies of Tonya Hawks and her three young sons were found shot to death Feb. 11 in their Phillipsburg home, she bought a semi-automatic handgun, according to Dr. James Davis, the Montgomery County coroner.


Davis said Wednesday that Hawks, 30, used the High Point .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol on her sons, Chase Love, 5, Chole Love, 4, and Hunter Hawks, 2, then turned it on herself Feb. 7.

Davis said all four died of chest wounds. Chase and Hunter were shot twice; the others had single bullet wounds.

Chase and Hunter were found in the master bedroom.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0222hawksweb.html

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. How very sad.

Really makes a person - at least me, anyway - wonder what was going on in the family and especially in the mind of the murderer. And then wonder if we as a society somehow failed her - failed to recognize the pain? Or the psychoses? Or did no one fail her but her own mind.

And we'll never know.

And now she and her children are dead, for what appears to be no good reason whatsoever.