Bass allegedly shot his children right after their mother put them to bed. She had been shot several times in the head. “Deputies go upstairs only to make the gruesome discovery that there’s a 5-year-old girl laying in a top bunk, laying in a pool of her own blood,” Chronister said. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Officeīass responded that the boy’s sister was sleeping upstairs in the top of the bunk bed she shared with her brother. Florida father Jermaine Bass allegedly fatally shot his 5-year-old daughter and critically injured his 8-year-old son. The mother then took the phone to describe what she heard when her husband, Jermaine Bass, came out of the home carrying the 8-year-old boy and telling her to call for help.ĭeputies rushed to the scene and found the father in the living room still holding the injured boy.īass repeatedly told them that he accidentally shot his son, Chronister said.Īs they prepared to transport the injured child to Tampa General Hospital, deputies asked him if there was anyone else in the home. ‘Dead or alive’: Miami Beach considers paying bounty for iguanasĭisney employee among 13 predators accused of wanting to ‘sexually abuse’ kidsĮx-teacher at Florida Christian school arrested in sext scandal allegedly twerked on student at promĪ Florida father fatally shot his 5-year-old daughter in the head and critically injured her brother soon after their mother kissed them goodnight in what officials called an “extremely disturbing” domestic incident Monday night.Įmotional Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said their mother was out to dinner and arrived home to give her kids - who were in their bunk beds - a goodnight kiss.Īfter doing so, the woman went to the bathroom and suddenly heard gunshots, Chronister said.Īssuming that the shots were fired outside her home, the woman ran outside and encountered a neighbor who had already called 911. Student missing, 1 injured after lightning strike caused rowing club boat to capsize