Crazed Mum Massacres Her Four Kids Then Shoots Herself Dead

Killer ... Tonya Thomas

A CRAZED mum has shot and killed her four children before turning the gun on herself.  Three of the injured youngsters had desperately dashed to a neighbour’s house to get help after Tonya Thomas opened fire.

But the 33-year-old emerged from their home and managed to lure the obedient kids back before shooting them dead.

The children — Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13, Jaxs Johnson, 15, and 17-year-old Pebbles Johnson — were gunned down yesterday [May 15] in the small town of Port St John, Florida, US, 15 miles from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre.

Another neighbour said Thomas had sent a text message in the dead of night telling how she would like to be cremated with her children.

Local police office Lt. Tod Goodyear said: “It appeared they had been shot”.

Victims ... (clockwise from top left) Pebbles Johnson, 17, Jaxs Johnson, 15, Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13

“The mother of the children came out of the residence next door, called for the children to return home, at which time they left and went back to the house".