This is such a sad story.
A woman accused of drowning her two-week old son and attempting to drown his twin brother told investigators that she only wanted the infants to go to heaven, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
Alisa Lorraine Evans, 38, also told investigators that she wished she could have saved her 18-year-old son, who was shot to death last year in Waco, Texas.
Evans, of the 3200 block of W. Senator Ave., was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of David Smith and with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for trying to drown Josiah Smith.
...According to the complaint, Evans' mother told police her daughter had been separated from her husband, who lives in Waco, Texas, and had been despondent over the death of her son John David Alexander Smith, who was killed in October. Evans had recently talked about hurting or killing herself, her mother told police.
Evans' mother told authorities she came home from an errand Friday afternoon and found the two boys on a bathroom floor and their mother sitting on the edge of the tub.
...According to the complaint: "Defendant did not want a temporary solution, she wanted something permanent. She wanted the children to go to Heaven."
Evans is obviously a very troubled woman and in unbearable pain.
Still, her pain is not an excuse to kill her son and attempt to kill her other son.
This will no doubt play out as an Andrea Yates type of case.
At least in this situation, one child was saved.
Thankfully, Evans' mother arrived in time to prevent one of her grandchildren from drowning. It must be heartbreaking for her to have lost two grandsons in just a few months. And the knowledge that her daughter was responsible for killing one of them must be an absolute nightmare.
If Evans' depression did stem from her 18-year-old son's murder and that had an impact on her choosing to drown her twins, I can't help but wonder how different things would be if John David Alexander Smith hadn't been killed.
It's like dominoes, one heartbreak leading to another.
Very, very sad.
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