Who is Krisinda Bright? Pennsylvania mom fatally shoots her 2 kids in the head, waits blood-soaked for cops
AMBRIDGE, PENNSYLVANIA: A 48-year-old Pennsylvania mother has been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of her children. On Monday, the Ambridge Police Department received a call around 1:30 p.m. about gunfire in the 900 block of Maplewood Avenue, according to interim police Chief John DeLuca.
Krisinda Bright was then taken into police custody after the police department found her 22-year-old daughter, Jasmine Cannady and 16-year-old son Jeffrey "JJ" Bright dead inside their home. According to the criminal complaint, law enforcement officials said Bright told 911 dispatchers that she had shot her children and left the gun unloaded on the dining room table. When the police arrived at the crime scene, Bright was waiting for them on the front porch with blood on her hands, arms and clothing, the complaint said.
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Bright's children, born Kiara Bright, 16, who was transitioning from female to male and went by the name Jeffrey, and Jasmine Cannady, 22, were shot in the head and face, the Beaver County coroner said.
In the series of brutal revelations, Bright said that she shot Jasmine before turning the gun on Jeffrey, who begged, "Please don't shoot, I'm gonna call the police," according to the complaint. When the gun didn't fire, Bright told police that she "fixed" the trigger before shooting the teenager in the face, the complaint said. And after shooting Jeffrey once, he still survived the shot, according to the complaint, so Bright told police that she fired the gun again "because she didn't want [him] to suffer," The Tribune-Review reported. Bright also admitted that she shot her daughter while she was lying in bed in an upstairs bedroom.
Jeffrey was a student in the Ambridge Area School District. Both he and Jasmine were involved in PRISM, a local youth organization that supports those in the LGBTQ community, WPXI reported. "Our hearts are so heavy and we are hurting," the organization said in a statement on Facebook in the wake of the tragedy. "JJ was a beautiful person with the biggest and brightest smile. We will miss your laugh. We will miss your jokes. You will never be forgotten. Fly high, JJ." In another post, the group called Jasmine a "sweet, shy, and artistic soul."
A vigil for the two was held on Tuesday, February 23 night.