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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nJason Kenney, 47 had an argument with his wife, Crystal Kenney, 38 while watching a football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts, before taking his own life on December 22, 2025, just days before Christmas, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The incident occurred after Kenney, who had been drinking, argued with his wife over changing the channel, leading to a violent confrontation in their Lakeland home. The stepdaughter, who survived after being shot in the face, later told investigators she begged her stepfather not to shoot her, but he did so anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s office, Jason Kenney had been watching the game in his shed before moving to the living room to continue watching with his wife. Later, Crystal Kenney instructed her 12-year-old son to go to a neighbor\u2019s house and call 911; the boy heard a gunshot as he left the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deputies found Crystal Kenney\u2019s body and her critically injured stepdaughter at the scene, while the couple\u2019s one-year-old baby girl was unharmed and asleep in her crib. After fleeing the scene, Kenney called his sister in New York, telling her he had done something \u201cvery, very bad\u201d and that he would not go to jail, before being found dead in a shed at his late father\u2019s home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities discovered an undated note from Crystal Kenney to her husband, expressing concern about his drinking and drug use, though the timing of the note remains unknown. The Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, described the event as a \u201cChristmas miracle\u201d that the baby survived and called the act \u201cliterally\u201d the destruction of a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Editor\u2019s Note: <\/em>If you are in need emotional support, reach out to the national mental health hotline, dial 988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that a Florida man fatally shot his wife and critically wounded his 13-year-old stepdaughter in a domestic dispute over watching a Monday Night Football… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60968,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60966\/revisions\/60968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}