In a tragic incident in San Antonio, Texas, a mother and her young son were found dead in circumstances that shook the community and underscored the devastating impact of domestic disputes. On March 19, the bodies of Savannah Kriger, 32, and her son Kaiden, 3, were discovered in a park, each with a gunshot wound to the head.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office He later confirmed the death as a murder-suicide. This painful discovery was the culmination of a series of distressing events that began to unfold the day before. According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Savannah Kriger left her workplace on the afternoon of March 18 and engaged in a series of alarming activities.
Authorities believe she visited her former marital home, which was unoccupied at the time because her ex-husband was at work. It was there that she reportedly fired two shots at her wedding portraits, an act that Sheriff Javier Salazar described during a news conference. After this act of vandalism, Kriger picked up her son from daycare. Over the next few hours, she sent a barrage of disturbing messages and videos to her ex-husband via FaceTime and text messages, she told him. the New York Post.
In these communications, she ominously told him that at the end of the day he would have nothing left and explicitly ordered him to say goodbye to his son. One of the last text messages he sent from her chillingly said: “Say goodbye to your son.” A key piece of evidence in this case was a 21-second video found on Kriger’s phone, which was recovered from the scene. In the video, Savannah and Kaiden are seen sitting in a ditch inside the park.
The footage showed a heartbreaking interaction in which she ordered Kaiden to say goodbye to his father and apologized because his father couldn’t be there, followed by her kissing him. Is reported that after recording this video, Kriger accessed children’s cartoons on his phone while still at the location.
Although the video itself did not capture the moment of the shooting, the implications were tragically clear. Sheriff Salazar noted that Kriger’s intentions, as evidenced by his actions and his subsequent findings, were unequivocal.
The bodies were discovered almost a day later, 19 hours after an Amber Alert It was issued and an extensive search was conducted. The timing of these events was particularly poignant as Kriger and her ex-husband were scheduled to appear in court for a custody hearing on the day the bodies were found. Earlier this month, Kriger had filed for divorce and filed for a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband, indicating deep-rooted issues between the two.
This incident has highlighted the profound effects of custody disputes and internal turmoil. As the community grapples with this tragedy, questions remain about the adequacy of support systems for those involved in custody and divorce disputes, underscoring the need for more comprehensive approaches to address and mitigate internal conflicts and their potentially catastrophic consequences. .
If you are having suicidal thoughts, you can call the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 or visit Suicide PreventionLifeline.org.
