Police responded to a call at 5:37 p.m on Old Gum Branch Road Bridge at Interstate 485 of a woman jumping off the bridge onto the highway. When they arrived, they found 34-year-old Christina Treadway who was pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no other people inside the home when police arrived.
Police believe Treadway assaulted her two children before committing suicide by jumping off the bridge. Police are still trying to figure out why the apparent murder-suicide took place.
“That’s at the core of this investigation. What would cause somebody to obviously be so despondent to take their own life and then take the lives of their children,” an investigator with CMPD told the news station. “That’s going to be a key component in the investigation and we’re nowhere near being able to speak on that.”
Treadway left a message on her Instagram before her alleged murder-suicide saying that she was “so very sorry.”
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