The world is shocked by the tragic end of a woman and her two children who fell in Niagara Falls. The NYPD investigation determined that Chianti Means33, jumped into the void after throwing Roman Rossman (9) y Mecca Means5 months, above the safety rail.
The hypothesis that it was a suicide followed by homicide gained strength in the last hours from the dissemination of the disturbing posts which the mother shared through her Facebook account under the pseudonym Diamond Scott. In these publications she expressed her pain and anguish over the recent separation of her youngest daughter’s father. “I wish someone would love mebecause the man who is supposed to do it doesn’t do it,” he wrote.
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“Please leave me alone. I am in love with the father of my daughter” she posted a few days later, before saying she was “fed up with anger, sadness and rage.” He also shared that he “wanted his family back” and said he “didn’t care what other people thought.” “You have to hold on to your loved ones. You never know when you might miss them.”he added.
At another time, Means said on social media that her biggest goal “was to become a calm woman in any situation.”
The woman’s disturbing posts on networks. (Photo: courtesy of The New York Post).
The police stated that the fall of the woman and her two children was “intentional”
After reviewing security cameras in the area, investigators determined that The 9-year-old boy was the first in the family to fall into the aguafollowed by the baby and her mother. Police spokesman James O’Callaghan stated that it was not an accident, but that what happened was “intentional.”
“I’m not going to go into details about what the witnesses saw because it’s still an active case, but it’s alarming what they told us,” O’Callaghan said. Police arrived at the scene Monday at 9:30 p.m. after several people called to report seeing a woman fall over the falls with her children.
Means climbed a four-foot-high fence on Luna Island to reach the cliff from which he would lead his children to their deaths. O’Callaghan explained that there were “a lot of safety measures” at Luna Falls, which is north of Goat Island, and that the three could not have “entered just like that”.
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The police are investigating the reasons that could have led the woman to commit the act, whether she was suffering from a mental health crisis or whether psychological disorders played a role in the tragic episode.