Police in Minnesota have revealed grim new details about the July 1 deaths of three children at the hands of their mother.
Cheng, 23, killed her children — Quadrillion T. Lee, 4, Phoenix Lee, 5, and 3-year-old Estella Zoo Siab Lee — hours after she reported that her 27-year-old husband Yee Lee had fatally shot himself in their Maplewood, Minnesota, home on July 1.
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The sheriff is investigating the death of Cheng and her children as a triple-murder suicide.
Cheng contacted police on July 1 at approximately 10:30 a.m. to report that her husband had shot himself. Deputies responded to the Rolling Hills Estates Mobile Home Park and found Lee dead from a gunshot wound.
The medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
Later that afternoon, around 4 p.m., Cheng’s relative called 911 “stating that Molly was going to kill her children and herself,” according to a police press release.
Police in Maplewood issued a statewide alert to find Cheng and her children. At 5:45 p.m. investigators tracked Cheng’s cell phone to the area of Vadnais-Sucker Lake Park in Vadnais Heights.
Soon afterward, deputies found her car in the parking lot of the park. They then discovered several pairs of kids' shoes and her car keys on the east shore of the lake.
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Phoenix was found in the lake at 12:03 a.m. on July 2.
Cheng’s body was found in the lake around 10:39 a.m. Estella was discovered about 20 minutes later.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
