Video shows Fla. woman aiming gun at son's head

[Submariner]

She shot her son in the head with a rented gun, and she was in a mental hospital at one time.


CASSELBERRY, Fla. — A central Florida woman who fatally shot her son then killed herself at a shooting range wrote in suicide notes to her boyfriend that she was trying to save her son.

"I'm so sorry," Marie Moore wrote several times. "I had to send my son to heaven and myself to Hell."

She signed two of the notes "Failed Queen."

Authorities said Wednesday they still had no motive for the murder-suicide that shocked fellow customers and employees at the Shoot Straight range in Casselberry, about 10 miles north of Orlando, on Sunday.

"We have no clue. I don't even want to begin to speculate," said Deputy Chief Bill McNeil of the Casselberry Police Department.

The gun range's security video shows 20-year-old Mitchell Moore taking aim at a target in a booth when his mother, 44, walks up behind him and points a gun at the back of his head. In the next frame, the son is seen falling to the ground and a nearby patron appears to alert others as he points to the unseen carnage.

The gun used was rented at the range.

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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090408/FL.Gun.Range.Death/

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. The British tabloid

had a far more exhaustive story - with pictures of all kinds.

That woman should never have been allowed to be in that place, let alone to rent a gun. It's horrible, the negligence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168424/Pictured-The-moment-deranged-mother-held-gun-sons-head-executed-firing-range.html