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we are anyway, and we have been here for more than a day.” “That should tell you something,” he said. ~~~~~~~~~~ <strong>NYT</strong>-1210 Tracing a Mother's Vagabond Path to Murder and Suic ide in Texas ... By MANNY FERNANDEZ Denied food stamps, Rachelle Grimmer, who had live d a wandering existence in recent months, took a h ostage at gunpoint at a social services office bef ore shooting her two children and herself. ===== notyet LAREDO, Tex. — Months after being denied food stam ps, Rachelle Grimmer grabbed her two children, a . 38-caliber revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition an d walked into the state social services office her e on Monday to demand answers. But Ms. Grimmer’s troubles were far deeper than a lack of food stamps, and neither the police nor th e employee she held hostage could resolve them. Divorced and living a vagabond existence in Texas in recent months, Ms. Grimmer, 38, told the police she was frustrated that she had been denied benef its in other states. She said that her former husb and was affiliated with the Russian mob and the Ku Klux Klan, a situation she said led to government harassment that prevented her from receiving publ ic assistance. Her hostage, Robert Reyes, a supervisor who had of fered himself in trade for two other employees Ms. Grimmer had taken hostage, granted her the food s tamp benefits she had requested — $3,050 worth, re troactive to July, the month she had first applied . The police slipped the paperwork under the door to show Ms. Grimmer it was for real. But she refus ed to leave the small office in the Texas Health a
nd Human Services building, at times sitting in a chair with her daughter on her lap and communicati ng with the police on an office phone. About 10 minutes before midnight, about seven hour s into the standoff, she hung up on hostage negoti ators. Moments later, three shots were heard. Ms. Grimmer had shot both of her children in the head, and then herself. She died at the scene. The chil dren were taken to University Hospital in San Anto nio. Her daughter, Ramie Marie Grimmer, 12, died o n Wednesday. Her son, Timothy Donald Grimmer, 10, died a day later. Carlos R. Maldonado, Laredo’s police chief, said t hat the denial of benefits was only one of a serie s of issues that had been troubling Ms. Grimmer, b ut that investigators had more questions than answ ers about her motive. The police were not certain if she was being treated for mental health problem s and did not know why she moved several months ag o to Laredo, a border city of 236,000, where she h ad no family. “Unfortunately in these situations, there’s a lot of questions that we have and a lot of those quest ions may never be answered,” Chief Maldonado said. “I think we did everything that we possibly could to resolve the situation. We heard people say, wh y didn’t the tactical team intervene and do someth ing about the mother and save the children? There was never any inclination, any information availab le to us, that the children were in any danger at all.” But Ramie appeared to have known her life was in d anger. At one point during the standoff, using an office computer, she updated her Facebook page, wr iting “may die 2day” in the section for posting wh ere she worked. Later, she wrote, “tear gas serias ly,” though none was used by the police.
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