Girl’s harrowing TikTok posts after mum and siblings killed
A girl has taken to TikTok to share the devastating news her mum and siblings have been shot dead, and alleges her stepfather is responsible for their deaths.
A girl shared a wailing TikTok video after her mother and siblings were found shot dead inside their US home, warning others to “hold your family close”.
Daughter Hailey Salisbury has identified the victims as her mother, Dawn Gillard, 40, and half-siblings Katelynn Gillard, 6, Ronald Gillard, 4, and Joshua Gillard, 3.
The victims were found shot dead inside their home on Friday after police responded to reports of a man with a gun, Michigan officials said.
Cops also located the children’s father, Charles Gillard, who was critically injured.
He is in a critical condition in hospital, ABC13 reports.
Salisbury has posted TikToks where she alleges her stepfather is to blame for the murders.
“Please please please hold your family close and don’t take them for granted, you never know what could happen,” she said in a clip that shows her sobbing.
In a different clip, Salisbury posted a picture of a man she says is Gillard and said: ‘I WILL find a way to speak to you before you die in prison you disgusting sickening thing,”
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Mecosta County Sheriff Brian Miller told MLive.com that evidence suggests the husband was responsible for the deaths of his children and wife, though he didn’t go into further details on Saturday.
Deputies discovered the woman and kids dead and the man injured with a gunshot wound to the head when they responded to a call on Friday afternoon of a man with a gun and shots fired, according to the county sheriff’s office.
The four family members died from gunshot wounds, police said. The man was rushed to an area hospital, the New York Post reports.
“We have a very tight-knit community in Mecosta,” Miller told MLive.com.
“There’s no better place I’d rather raise my kids at.”
An investigation is underway.
“With our first-responders, almost everyone at the scene had children of their own. I can tell you they took it very hard,” Miller reportedly said.
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In a letter to the community on Saturday, Morley Stanwood Community Schools Superintendent Roger Cole said one of the victims went to the district’s elementary school.
“How it happened, why it happened, is not the focus on this letter,” he wrote. “The loss of a life is always difficult, but when that loss is tragic, and yes senseless, it is much harder to deal with.”
– With the New York Post and The US Sun