911 recordings released in case of Florida mom who allegedly shot four children, herself

A 911 call that is connected to the shooting deaths of four children has been released by Brevard County, Fla., officials.

By Kari Huus, msnbc.com

Recordings of 911 calls and autopsy results released Friday provide a window into the predawn chaos on Tuesday when?Florida mother Tonya Thomas apparently shot and killed her four children and then killed herself, WESH Orlando reported.

Neighbors ? a husband and wife awakened by someone banging loudly on the door and crying for help ? called police to report the disturbance.

In conversations with police dispatchers, it became apparent that the disoriented couple had three neighbor kids outside their door in Port St. John,?Fla.?They could see the blood, but they were uncertain who had been shot and who had a gun, according to Florida Today in its report on the 911 tapes.

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"They tried to break in our front door to get in, I guess, to get away from her, whoever?s got the gun,"?the unidentified man, who apparently is sharing the phone with his wife, says on the?initial call, according to the WESH video. "So I grabbed my gun and ran outside and one of them is laying there bleeding right there at our front door."

"He's bleeding at the front door," the dispatcher repeats, and then asks: "Is he still there?"

"No, he went back home," the man responds.

Dispatcher: "And he went back inside the residence?"

"I guess," the man reponds in the recording on WESH.?"I don't know who has the gun so I'm not walking out there."

According to WESH's video, the man tells? the?dispatcher as the sound of shooting next door continued: "I'm armed, but I?m not going out there and put myself in danger."

The recordings indicate that?that the neighbors were concerned about troubles at the house?before Tuesday's tragedy.

As the woman apparently begins to understand what is happening, her voice cracks. "I knew this was going to happen," she says, according to the account by Florida Today.

Later the news emerged that all of the children and their mother were dead. Police believe that Thomas, 33, shot to death all four of her children ? Joel, Jazzlyn, Jaxs and Pebbles, ages 12 to 17.

Records show police had answered two 911 calls at the residence before. Jaxs Johnson, the 15-year-old, was due in court the day of the shootings to face assault charges filed by his mother on April 9, WESH reported. ?

It was unclear what made the children go back to their home, where they were finally shot to death.

"There?s a possibility that they were just in shock," Brevard County Sheriff's spokesman Tod Goodyear told WESH.

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