According to one resident, New Braunfels police said the Champions Village subdivision never registered a bleep on the cityâs crime monitor.
âYou could count the numbers of crimes on one hand â minus some fingers,â he said.
That was until Thursday, when police said a mother shot and killed her 10-year-old son and wounded her 16-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself.Â
âI knew the mother and her children â weâre very, very sad,â said the manâs wife, adding over 15 years the couple had come to know the family living in a residence in the 500 block of Wilderness Way, where first-responders encountered a grisly scene just before 10 a.m.
Police: Two dead, one critical after mother shoots self, children in New Braunfels
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New Braunfels police say a woman shot her two children and herself, leaving her 10-year-old son dead and her daughter critically wounded.Sujata Jana / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm
A woman allegedly shot her two children, killing one and seriously wounding the other, before turning the gun on herself Thursday morning in New Braunfels.
Chelsee Dodd, 43, reportedly shot her son Trace Dodd, 10, at about 9:55 p.m. in the 500 block of Wilderness Way, New Braunfels police said.
Officers arrived at the home after the shooting was reported and found the family of three with gunshot wounds. Officials did not say who called police.
New Braunfels shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday morning, where they found Dodd, her 10-year-old son,
Trace and 16-year-old daughter with gunshot wounds, the
New Braunfels Police Department
Dodd, 43, a local
realtor and her son died at the scene. Her teen daughter was unconscious and rushed to a local hospital with a life-threatening injury, police said.
Police believe Dodd opened fire on her kids before killing herself. Cops have not revealed a motive for the shootings.
Schools in the area including Oak Run Middle School, Veramendi Elementary School, and the New Braunfels Christian Academy were briefly locked down until officers secured the scene
Whatâs in a name? In the years to come, the students at New Braunfels Long Creek High School will be able to tell you.
New Braunfels Independent School District trustees approved the new name at its Monday night meeting out of a list that also included New Braunfels Heritage High School, New Braunfels Legend Point High School and New Braunfels East High School.
The vote passed 5-2 with board president Sherry Harrison and newly-elected trustee John Tucker voting against. Board vice president Wes Clark, secretary David Heefner, newly-elected trustee Nancy York and trustees Keith D. Smith and Eric Bergquist voted in favor.Â