https://www.clickorlando.com/news/lo...er-lake-jesup/
https://www.wesh.com/article/seminol...icide/45910315Five-year-old twins were found dead Friday in a home in Sanford after a woman leapt to her death off the State Road 417 bridge over Lake Jesup near Oviedo, sheriff?s officials said.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis M. Lemma said that it?s believed the double murder-suicide took place early Friday.
Deputies were called to the S.R. 417 bridge around 8:45 a.m. when a motorist spotted a car pulled over on the shoulder of the bridge and a woman sliding out of the passenger-side window before jumping into the water, said Lemma, who identified the woman as 31-year-old Catorreia Hutto.
Lemma said deputies spotted the woman floating in the water and summoned two nearby fishermen, one of whom happened to be an off-duty Seminole County firefighter, to recover the body.
The other story I posted out of Miami reminds me so much of this story. I still don't know how this woman killed herself jumping off the Lake Jesup bridge. Yes, that lake has one of the highest gator counts in Florida (it's where they dump nuisance gators) but the bridge isn't much higher than a normal roadway. When you drive over it you are barely higher than the water.The medical examiner listed the cause of the twins' deaths as homicide, according to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said the medical examiner also reported there were "findings consistent with asphyxia death."
According to the sheriff's office, there were no findings in the toxicology results that suggested the twins were poisoned.
Her obit: https://www.tallahassee.com/obituaries/psar0607107
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...der-twins.html
According to the witness who phoned the police - Hutto climbed out of the passenger seat window after parking her silver car on the SR-417 bridge into Lake Jesup and then jumped in.
The twins - Ahmed and Ava Jackson - have special needs. The little boy and girl had not been to school since October 13, according to Sherriff Dennis Lemma.
According to deputies, the house did not have much food or furniture - they suggested this might indicate that the family was struggling financially.
Hutto had acquired her home through a nonprofit charity, Habitat for Humanity, known for building houses for people who can't afford them.
Hutto's mother revealed that her daughter had faced a lifelong battle with depression but there were no outward signs of rapid decline or worrying reports, according to the Sheriff's office and the Florida Department of Children and Families.
The mother-of-two had been working for a temp agency doing clerical jobs and had been seen at work just a few days earlier, Lemma said.