RedZero
9th December 2011, 00:34
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office on Monday and staged a seven-hour standoff with the police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said.
Correction: December 8, 2011
A headline in some copies on Wednesday with an article about a mother who killed herself at a state welfare office in San Antonio because she was angry over not qualifying for food stamps misstated the details of the incident. The woman, identified as Rachelle Grimmer, shot and critically injured her two children; they were not killed.
story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/us/woman-seeking-food-stamps-shoots-her-children.html?_r=1&ref=us
I guess this is the shit that happens when you deny humans what they need to sustain themselves. Sad world we live in.
Correction: December 8, 2011
A headline in some copies on Wednesday with an article about a mother who killed herself at a state welfare office in San Antonio because she was angry over not qualifying for food stamps misstated the details of the incident. The woman, identified as Rachelle Grimmer, shot and critically injured her two children; they were not killed.
story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/us/woman-seeking-food-stamps-shoots-her-children.html?_r=1&ref=us
I guess this is the shit that happens when you deny humans what they need to sustain themselves. Sad world we live in.