Julie Schenecker, who police say killed her teenage daughter, Calyx, and son, Beau, because she was fed up with them talking back and being mouthy, is in custody and being treated at a hospital for an unknown condition.

Tampa police responded about 7:30 a.m. Friday to a check for well-being call at 16305 Royal Park Court after Julie Schenecker’s mother called police with concern about her daughter’s depression.

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St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon shows personal items of police officers Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz, who were killed Monday when law enforcement agents tried to arrest 39-year-old Hydra Lacy Jr. on an aggravated battery charge in St. Petersburg, Florida.

St. Petersburg Police Officers Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz, and a U.S. Marshal were shot just after 7 a.m. Monday at 3734 28th Avenue S, in the Perry Bayview neighborhood while serving a domestic battery warrant. The subject of the warrant and the suspected shooter, Hydra Lacy Jr. was also shot, and was killed.

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