New Hampshire mom, 3-year-old son shot and killed in possible murder-suicide: Authorities

A New Hampshire mom whitethorn person changeable and killed her toddler boy earlier turning nan limb connected herself wrong nan family’s secluded cottage home, authorities said.

Another resident of nan location successful nan woods connected Pembroke Hill Road called 911 astir 1 a.m. Friday aft reportedly proceeding 2 gunshots, according to nan Pembroke Police Department.

Julia Byrne and toddler boy Blake were successful an upstairs bedroom, each pinch with azygous gunshot wounds to nan head, constabulary said.

The mom, 26, was pronounced dormant astatine nan scene, while her kid was rushed to a section hospital, wherever he died.

The lawsuit is being investigated astatine a imaginable execution and suicide, the New Hampshire Department of Justice said.

The tract of nan shooting, a two-story yellowish shingled location astatine nan apical of a elevation on a usually serene agrarian area, was cordoned disconnected pinch crime segment portion early Friday arsenic investigators took forensic photos, according to nan Concord Monitor.

“I don’t cognize who lived there, and I don’t deliberation I ever saw them travel retired of nan house,” Ryan Demers, a neighbour who has lived connected Pembroke Hill Road for 2 years, told nan news outlet.

“As acold I knew, they beautiful overmuch kept to themselves,” he added.

Julia Byrne’s societal media is filled pinch happy pictures of her and her boy connected hikes and picnics, but she had besides shared a number of troubling posts astir struggling pinch her intelligence wellness and nan challenges of being a mother, nan Daily Mail first reported.

Byrne enlisted successful nan US Army successful 2018. It is unclear if Byrne graduated basal training aliases was an progressive subject personnel astatine nan clip of her death.