Man shot and killed his wife and wounded his stepdaughter after an argument over an NFL game
According to reports, a Florida man shot and killed his wife and wounded his stepdaughter after an argument over an NFL game, then fled the scene and later fatally shot himself, authorities said. The shooting happened after he had been drinking, and the couple’s young children were not injured.
According to the sheriff’s office, 47-year-old Jason Kenney had been watching the San Francisco 49ers play the Indianapolis Colts in his shed in the Highland City area of Lakeland when he wanted to watch the end of the game on TV in his living room.
His wife, Crystal Kenney, didn’t want to watch the game, and that’s when an argument began, the sheriff’s office said.
“Crystal told her 12-year-old son to go call 911,” Grady said. “So, the 12-year-old flees to the neighbor’s house in order to dial 911, and as he’s leaving the house, he hears a gunshot.”
“When we entered the house, we see that Crystal Kenney, the wife of Jason, is shot in the head and dead,” Grady said. “But it gets worse.”
Grady said that when they entered a bedroom, they found a 13-year-old girl suffering from a gunshot wound to her shoulder and to her face.
She was taken to a hospital where she was listed in critical but stable condition, Grady said.
“Jason shot her twice and intended to kill her,” Grady said. “He didn’t, however, shoot his biological child — thank God — who was 1-year-old and in a crib. He shot his stepdaughter. He didn’t get a chance to shoot his stepson, who had run to dial 911.”
Grady said that Jason Kenney fled the scene before the deputies arrived. He said he called his sister in New York state and said he had done something “very, very bad” and wasn’t going to go to jail for the crime.
