Mom-of-three 'died a hero' protecting her children from husband who flew into a rage over NFL game and shot girl, 13, in the face
Crystal Roure was fatally shot by her husband after a dispute over a football game, while he also shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter in the face.
Published: 00:06 GMT, 12 January 2026 | Updated: 00:27 GMT, 12 January 2026
A Florida mother was gunned down by her husband after he went berserk over an NFL game and shot his stepdaughter in the face.
Crystal Roure died protecting her three children after a dispute with her husband, Jason Kenney, that began when she asked him to turn off a football game.
Kenney shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter, severely injuring her, and murdered his wife during the mayhem just three days before Christmas.
As the argument escalated, Crystal feared for her children’s safety and told her 12-year-old son to run to a neighbor’s house and call 911, according to Polk County Sheriff's Office.
As the 12-year-old boy ran outside, he heard gunshots, and police later found Crystal dead in the home along with her severely injured stepdaughter.
Their one-year-old daughter was also discovered unharmed, while Kenney was nowhere to be found.
The teen girl miraculously survived the attack, with the bullet striking the bridge of her nose and ricocheting through the top of her head, USA Today reported.
'She said, "I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, and he shot me anyway,"' Sheriff Grady Judd said during a press conference.
Kenney fled the scene to his late father's home, before calling his sister to tell her he did 'something very bad,' and later turned the gun on himself.
Crystal Roure was fatally shot by her husband and died protecting her three children
The two had been married for just two years before the horror unfolded
One family member said Kenney was abusive and has 'beat on Crystal for a while,' but the sheriff's office said there have been no records of domestic violence between the two.
The couple had been married for two years, and the husband had no prior criminal history, according to Judd.
'He absolutely destroyed a family,' Judd said during the conference.
'When you go in there, there is a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of Christmas presents under the tree, just like the nuclear family should be ... and it ends up this way.'
Officers found a note Crystal wrote to Kenney during the search of their home.
The mother-of-three begged her husband to get help, with the note saying, 'You’re drinking, you’re using cocaine again.
'This is not the way the family should be. You need God,' the note read, per Judd.
The shootings occurred just three days before Christmas on December 22, 2025