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Mother with mental illness shoots four adopted children dead before turning the gun on herself

Authorities are baffled about what motivated 58-year-old Cynthia Collier to kill her four children and herself this past October
PUBLISHED DEC 16, 2018

Details are beginning to emerge in the horrific murder-suicide that claimed the lives of a mother and her four adoptive children at their $1 million residence at the 1000 block of Carters Creek Pike in Columbia, Tennessee, in October. A newly-released autopsy report stated that the mother, 58-year-old Cynthia Collier, shot and killed 14-year-old Bo Li, 14-year-old Meigan Lin, 15-year-old Lia Lin, and 17-year-old Kaileigh Lin, before shooting herself in the head.

According to the Tennessean, the autopsy by Davidson County Senior Associate Medical Examiner David Zimmerman revealed that the four children — who Cynthia and her estranged husband Randall Collier had adopted from China between 2003 and 2008 — had died of multiple gunshot wounds while the mother had died of a single gunshot wound.

The murder-suicide took place this past October, with authorities unsure what motivated the mother to carry out the killings (Source: Facebook)
The murder-suicide took place this past October, with authorities unsure what motivated the mother to carry out the killings (Source: Facebook)
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