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| Permalink View Article Stats (4 comments) Promoted to Headline (H4) on 12/8/11: After Being Denied Food Stamps, Despairing Mother Shoots Her Two Children and Self In Texas Welfare Office Quicklink submitted by Amanda Lang (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Rachelle Grimmer and her two children were a struggling family living in a rundown trailer park. The Texas Dept of Health and Human Services denied her application for food stamps, saying that she did not submit enough information. Grimmer went to a welfare office in Laredo to discuss her case. What happened next was nothing short of horrific -- after a seven-hour standoff with police, Grimmer shot her two children and then herself to death. Update: One of the children, 12-year-old Ramie Grimmer, died at a San Antonio hospital, Laredo police spokesman Joe Baeza said. The girl's brother, 10, remained in critical condition. |
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Is this Rick Perry's Texas Miracle?
by Amanda Lang on Thursday, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:44:11 PM
For Rick Perry...
by John Sanchez Jr. on Friday, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:51:32 AM
starving children of America
by robert braunstein on Thursday, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:25:10 PM
Republicans must be celebrating ....
by E. T. SIMON on Friday, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:18:13 AM