Divorced Florida Mom Shoots And Kills Her Two Kids Then Herself

A recently divorced Florida mom shot and killed her two teenage children before turning the gun on herself, police said.

Estranged husband, Richard Berman, found the bodies of his ex-wife Jennifer, his 16-year-old son Alexander and his 15-year-old daughter Jacqueline in their West Palm Beach home on Monday, The Palm Beach Post reported.

Cops confirmed the three appeared to have died in a murder suicide.

"I can't believe this could happen in our neighborhood," Rod Tinson, the Berman's neighbor, told The Palm Beach Post, "but I guess it could happen anywhere. It's a shame. It's sickening to hear the teenage kids, too."

Richard, whose divorce from Jennifer was finalized in December, received an email from his ex-wife saying she was going to hurt herself and her children. The 51-year-old then drove home to 212 Pershing Way.

"She sent me an email that she did the best thing for our family," Richard said when he called 911 while driving home, the New York Daily News reported. "And then she sent her cousin a text that she was going to kill the kids and herself."

Richard came home to the horrific scene on Monday morning.

"Oh, s--t," Richard told 911 when he found his son, according to the Daily News. "I was just touching his head. He wasn't waking up. His alarm was on, he wasn't waking up, there's blood in his ear."

Reports say that Jennifer and Richard, who were both in real estate, suffered from financial problems for a while. Jennifer and her children were supposed to move out of their home in February, which was in foreclosure since 2010.

"The husband has not paid the mortgage on the former marital home during the entire time of the dissolution of marriage proceeding. He has not contributed to the support of the wife or the minor children," court documents said, according to The Palm Beach Post. "In fact, he has refused to pay for toilet paper, buys food and supplies for himself and keeps them where the wife and children cannot access them."

Jennifer and Richard had been married for over 16 years.

"You can't fathom, you can't understand what's going on in someone's head for things like that to happen," Brian McManus, a friend of the family, told WSVN TV.