Five-year-old twins were found dead in a bunk bed after their mother jumped to her death from a bridge in Florida in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.
The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call around 8:45 a.m. Friday from a driver who reported a woman had stopped her silver car on the SR 417 bridge, slid out the car’s passenger side window and jumped into Lake Jesup, Sheriff Dennis M. Lemma told reporters.
When deputies arrived, they saw the woman in the water. They asked two fishermen, one of whom was a retired Seminole County Firefighter, to help recover his body.
The woman, identified as 31-year-old Catorreia Hutto, of Sanford, was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.
The incident prompted a medical examination of her home after authorities learned she was the mother of 5-year-old twins.
Inside the home, police found the boy and girl — Ahmad and Ava Jackson — dead in their beds. Both children have special needs, according to police.
Police said the woman slid out of her passenger side window and jumped into the lake. Orlando Police then searched the mother’s home and found the twins dead inside. Click Orlando
A gun was found in the bedroom, but the children did not have any gunshot wounds or had any signs of blunt trauma to their bodies, Lemma said.
The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner’s office.
“If (deputies) didn’t check vital signs, they wouldn’t have known they were dead,” the sheriff said.
Hutto has no criminal history and no calls to his current home – which is a Habitat for Humanity project completed about a year ago. The house had little food or furniture in it, according to Lemma.
The cause of death for the twins will be determined by the local medical examiner. Click Orlando
He was working at a temp agency, however, it was unclear if he was struggling financially, the sheriff said. Hutto has been at work as recently as a few days ago.
The twins last attended school on October 13, Lemma said.
Hutto had tried to contact his mother, who lives in Perry but was in Orlando for a medical procedure, on Thursday night.
Her mother told police she missed the call and assumed one of the twins was playing with the phone, because Hutto didn’t leave a message.
Investigators believe the child’s father lives in South Florida.
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