Bizarre! Mother Kills Son Before Taking Her Own Life in Hospital

 

Police have revealed that a mother of a patient at a suburban Phoenix children’s hospital took her son’s life before taking her own.

Police spokesman Steve Berry said, said nurses at Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa found the woman and her 5-year-old child dead inside the child’s room while conducting a 2 a.m. bed check Saturday.

“Every two hours they do a check,” Berry said. “They were seen alive and fine at midnight and then found at 2 a.m.”

"The mother had a fatal gunshot wound," Berry said. He could not describe how the child died. Upon finding the pair, the nurses immediately called for trauma units as well as security. An off-duty police officer was already working at the hospital, according to authorities.

Investigators believe the mother killed the child and then herself. "Nobody at the hospital recalls hearing any gunshots or suspicious activity," Berry said. The boy was in a private room.

Berry told KPHO-TV that the woman was 27-year-old Tammy Griffith, and the 5-year-old’s name was Helious.

Police have completed their investigation of the scene and the room has been turned back over to the hospital. No one else in the hospital was threatened or harmed.

According to Mesa Police Department Det. Steve Berry  "Everything was kind of confined to that one room," he said.

The mother currently had an open case with the Arizona Department of Child Safety but she was the boy’s legal guardian, Berry said.