'They were beautiful little girls inside and out,' Jessie said. Jessie Stewart's daughter, Nadia, was Kaylee and Kenlie's best friend. She said Sarah recently had some job interviews lined up and was stressed about finding a job, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. ‘Get you’re blah blah blah in here.’ That was mainly why I never really met her because she just wasn't my kind of person.'Īnother neighbor says the family was struggling a bit financially and only relying on Jake's income.

“We could hear her yelling and cussing at the girls. 'She yelled at them constantly,” said neighbor Jaylne Palmer. Neighbors across the street from the home say they often heard the mother speaking harshly to the little girls. SKY4 was over the home as investigators removed potential evidence, including what appears to be a rifle. The sheriff says Jake was interviewed at length at the sheriff’s office and was released. He woke up and realized that she had shot the children and so he notified law enforcement.'

'The family was asleep - other than the mother - is what we're getting out of the investigation right now,” the sheriff explained. Investigators say Sarah admitted to shooting the children but did not offer a motive. Both the husband and wife were still at the home when deputies arrived. When paramedics arrived at the home, they found 5-year-old Kenlie and 7-year-old Kaylee dead. Three hours later around 2:30 a.m., the sheriff says Sarah’s husband, Jake Henderson, called 911 saying she had shot and killed the two children inside their rural Henderson County home. to investigate but did not find any cause for alarm.

A deputy went to the home around 11:30 p.m. The first call went to EMS about a suicidal woman. Hillhouse says there were two calls to family's home Wednesday night near the town of Payne Springs.

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