New Orleans police charge Chelsea Thornton in deaths of two children NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Police said they charged a New Orleans woman with two counts of first-degree murder after she told them she shot her son and drowned her daughter. Chelsea Thornton, 23, confessed to police Wednesday evening she killed her two children -- 3-year-old Kendall Adams and 4-year-old Chelsea Adams -- and then took a bus to a nearby hospital complaining of stomach pains and a headache, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Thursday. Thornton had called the children's father to meet her at the hospital, but when he saw the children were not with her, he sent his mother to check on them, the newspaper reported. The grandmother discovered both bodies in the bathtub of Thornton's apartment, the father's cousin, Nicole Hammons, said. Hammons said the family had concerns about the way Thornton was raising the children. "I wish she would've opened up more to us," she said. As family members, we could've pushed harder. We were concerned for the kids. We obviously didn't know this would happen.