Authorities on Tuesday released 911 calls that capture the panic in a Houston-area home before a mother killed her two daughters, as well as in the home of a neighbor after the shootings. 
 
 
 
 The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office released recordings of two 911 calls from Christy Sheats' daughters, 17-year-old Madison Sheats and 22-year-old Taylor Sheats. A third 911 call came from a neighbor's home. 
 
 Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said Wednesday that Christy Sheats called a family meeting Friday, apparently to tell the family that she and her husband were going to divorce, the Houston Chronicle reports. 
 
 After an argument, she "quickly" pulled out a handgun and fatally shot her two daughters before an officer killed her. 
 
 Nehls interviewed her husband, 45-year-old Jason Sheats, who was uninjured in the shooting. 
 
 Christy Sheats wanted "to punish her husband," Nehls said Wednesday. 
 
 The sheriff's office said on Facebook that "two of the calls are from Taylor and Madison and are difficult to listen to." 
 
 
 
 In the first call, a voice is heard crying, "Please! Forgive [inaudible]! Please! Don't shoot!" After a scream, someone cries, "Please! I'm sorry." A voice yells "Please! Don't point that gun at us!" 
 
 
 
 Another voice, possibly that of husband Jason Sheats, is heard saying, "I promise you, whatever you want," before the call is disconnected. 
 
 In the second call, a woman is heard saying, weakly, "She shot [inaudible]." 
 
 In the third call, a neighbor describes Madison and Taylor Sheats, apparently still alive, lying in the street in front of their house. The neighbor describes Christy Sheats in a purple dress kneeling over one of her daughters and shooting her dead. The other daughter died later at a hospital. 
 
 "There's a guy trying to help them, but the lady is on top of one of them with a gun in her hand," the panicked neighbor says in a recording of the call obtained by the Houston Chronicle. 
 
 
 
 "She's standing over one of the patients with the gun?" the dispatcher asks. 
 
 "Yes... It looks like both of them are alive," the neighbor says. "She's trying to shoot again on top of her, but apparently she don't have anymore bullets." 
 
 The man then tells the dispatcher that the woman went back into the house. 
 
 "Hopefully she's not getting anymore bullets, because she looks like she's going to look for more bullets," he says. 
 
 About a minute later, the neighbor tells 911 the woman has returned with more bullets. 
 
 "Oh," the man says, with pain in his voice. "She shot her again ... From the back." 
 
 The neighbor, who occasionally tells his family members to get on the floor, says he could hear more gunfire before seeing the woman lying on the ground. The man says he thinks the woman shot herself , then says she has stopped moving. 
 
 
 
 "Sir, I'm so sorry you're seeing this," the dispatcher tells him. 
 
 A Fulshear police officer killed Christy Sheats after she refused demands to drop her gun. 
 
 Her Facebook profile included a pro-gun post, alongside posts about how much she loved members of her family. 
 
 Officials said Christy Sheats had been hospitalized several times after suicide attempts and had a history of mental illness. 
 
 Authorities had been called to the home 14 times in the past four years, including three times for suicide attempts, once for a possible suicide attempt and one for an argument, Nehls said. 
 
 Staff writer Tom Steele and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 
 
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 @clairezcardona ||||| Disturbing new details were released Monday in a Katy shooting that left two young women and their mother dead. (Photo: KHOU) 
 
 The terrifying final moments of two Katy sisters were captured in 911 recordings released Tuesday. 
 
 Madison and Taylor Sheats both called 911 before their mother, Christy Sheats, shot them to death. Their father, Jason Sheats, could be heard begging his wife not to shoot them as the girls screamed in the background. 
 
 “Please don’t point the gun at us … I beg you, please put it away,” Jason Sheats pleaded. “I’m sorry. I promise you, whatever you want … “ 
 
 Madison Davey, a family friend, said Christy hid the gun in the couch cushions before she called a family meeting. When she pulled out the gun, Jason tried to push the girls out the front door, Davey said. 
 
 Taylor and Madison Sheats 
 
 Madison, 17, was shot just as she made it outside. She collapsed and died. 
 
 Taylor, 22, was shot once inside the home. Christy Sheats followed her outside and shot her again. Then she went inside, reloaded and shot Taylor a third time, according to Fort Bend County investigators. 
 
 "She's coming back again. Oh!!! She shot her again. The female that was lying on the ground," a neighbor told the 911 dispatcher. 
 
 Madison and Taylor Sheats (Photo: KHOU) 
 
 That's when a Fulshear police officer shot and killed Christy Sheats. 
 
 "I can hear bullets," the neighbor said. "She [the shooter] is lying down... It doesn't look like she's moving anymore." 
 
 Jason Sheats ran to a neighbor’s house for help. He wasn’t shot. 
 
 Witnesses said before the shootings, Christy yelled that she wanted her husband to suffer. The shootings happened on his birthday. 
 
 Davey said the couple had marital problems and Christy had moved out for a while and had recently moved back in. 
 
 Madison and Taylor Sheats 
 
 The 38-revolver she used was apparently passed down to Christy from her grandfather, and Jason was unaware she owned a gun. 
 
 Taylor had planned to marry her longtime boyfriend on Monday at the courthouse, Davey said. She graduated from Lone Star College but wanted to return to school for a degree in art or teaching. 
 
 Davey said Taylor and Madison were both talented artists. Madison was going to be a senior at Seven Lakes High School. 
 
 Madison and Taylor Sheats (Photo: KHOU) 
 
 Now, family members are now planning their funerals. There will be a memorial service for Taylor and Madison in Houston and they’ll be buried in Alabama. 
 
 Christy’s funeral will be separate and she will be cremated. 
 
 Warning: Graphic content 
 
 Raw: Madison Sheats' 911 call (warning: graphic) 
 
 Raw: Sheats' neighbor calls 911 after shooting (warning: graphic) 
 
 © 2018 KHOU-TV ||||| FULSHEAR, Texas -- A Texas mother accused of gunning down her two adult daughters opened fire in her home, then reloaded her gun before again shooting one of her daughters in the street, the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday. 
 
 Police say the shooting happened around 5 p.m. Friday in the family's home outside the Houston suburb of Fulshear. Just before, they say, 42-year-old Christy Sheats had convened a "family meeting" inside their home. Sheats' daughters, Taylor, 22, and Madison, 17, and her husband Jason, 45, had gathered in the living room. During the meeting, Sheats held up a gun and shot both of her daughers, police say. 
 
 Sheats had been arguing with her husband about marital issues before she began shooting, Maj. Chad Norvell of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office tells Crimesider. 
 
 "The husband and wife weren't getting along," Norvell said. 
 
 According to a police press release, Jason Sheats and both daughters managed to flee through the front door. Madison Sheats, who was shot once, soon collapsed and died. 
 
 Taylor Sheats ran into the street and Christy Sheats followed, shooting Taylor again, police say. Jason Sheats ran to the end of a cul-de-sac and was uninjured. 
 
 A witness told police Christy Sheats went back inside the home to reload the gun, and then returned and shot Taylor Sheats once more. Taylor Sheats was shot three times, police tell Crimesider. She was airlifted to a hospital, where she died. 
 
 Police say a deputy with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office and an officer from nearby Fulshear Police Department responded. The officers saw the woman shooting one of the girls in the street, police say. They say Christy Shears didn't obey the Fulshear officer's demand to drop the handgun and the officer fired once, killing her. 
 
 The sheriff's office has responded to 14 calls for service at the home since January of 2012, police say. Some of those calls were for accidental alarm trips, Norvell told Crimesider, but in five of those instances, someone at the home called for medical response. Norvell couldn't release details about why responders were called in those cases. 
 
 During one call, in November of 2015, a third party requested a welfare check and reported that the couple was arguing. Norvell said it was a verbal argument and police determined there hadn't been physical abuse. There were no charges filed. 
 
 Police haven't yet determined a motive for the shooting. Jason Sheats gave an initial interview to police, but Norvell said investigators "don't want to push him too much." 
 
 "He's in a difficult state right now," Norvell said. 
 
 Jezebel reports Christy Sheats had expressed support on Facebook for her right to carry a semi-automatic handgun recently, writing: "It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away, but that's exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns." ||||| FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas - New details have been released in a family violence case in which a mother killed her two daughters on a neighborhood street before being fatally shot by an officer in Katy. 
 
 Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office investigators said Christy Sheats, 42, shot and killed her two daughters, Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17. 
 
 Over the weekend, a member of the Sheats family, living in Alabama, wrote on Facebook that Taylor Sheats was to be married Monday in a small ceremony. 
 
 "They were to be married Monday. And later again after graduation from college with a big wedding," Ann Sheats Wooten wrote. 
 
 
 
 It is unclear whether the fateful family meeting called by Christy Sheats on Friday was to discuss the pending wedding. 
 
 According to officials, Christy Sheats had arranged a meeting with the family Friday at their home in the 6000 block of Remson Hollow Lane near Blanchard Grove Drive. When her daughters and husband, Jason Sheats, gathered in the living room, investigators said the mother pulled out a five-shot, .38-caliber handgun and shot the two women. 
 
 Officers said the daughters and their father managed to run out of the house, using the front door. Investigators said Madison Sheats collapsed and died, while Jason Sheats ran to the end of the cul-de-sac. 
 
 “We heard the dad say, 'Don't do this. They're our kids,'” neighbor Fazz Zainuddin said. 
 
 Christy Sheats chased Taylor Sheats down the street, shooting her again, deputies said. According to a witness, the mother then went back inside the house and reloaded her gun. When she returned, a witness said Christy Sheats shot Taylor Sheats again. 
 
 When a Fort Bend County deputy and Fulshear Police Department officer arrived at the home around 5 p.m., investigators said Christy Sheats was still holding a gun. Her daughters were lying in the street nearby. 
 
 “The cops were behind the trees and behind the cars, and they told the mom to put the gun down and, obviously, she did not,” Zainuddin said. 
 
 With one shot, the Fulshear police officer killed Christy Sheats, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said. 
 
 Whether the purpose of the family meeting had been to discuss the wedding isn't clear yet, but it appears Christy Sheats had issues. 
 
 Christy Sheats' former employer, John Hollis, who owns a tattoo removal business in west Houston, characterized her as a sometimes troubled person and an erratic employee. 
 
 "She had that very sweet, southern, Alabama look and sound with that accent, but whenever they (customers) weren't here, it wasn't always like that. She was different," Hollis said. 
 
 Hollis said that he had tried to contact Sheats by phone to remove erroneous information she posted to her "LinkedIn" account regarding her role with the company and her time at the company. 
 
 Hollis eventually fired her, he said Monday. 
 
 "I think she was a lady who was going through a very difficult and traumatic time with whatever was going on at home," Hollis said. 
 
 According to the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, deputies have responded to 14 calls for service at the home since January 2012. Investigators said some were alarm issues but, due to legal constraints, the office cannot release details regarding the calls at this time. 
 
 “This is sad, knowing a good family and this is what happened,” Zainuddin said. 
 
 Investigators said one daughter died at the scene and the other was flown to a hospital, where she later passed away. Their father wasn’t injured but was still taken to the hospital. 
 
 “He was going through a very difficult time,” Nehls said. 
 
 Neighbors said the parents may have been having marital problems. 
 
 According to Facebook, Taylor Sheats attended Lone Star College and loved to draw. 
 
 Madison Sheats was a student at Seven Lakes High School. She once wrote on her Facebook wall, “Moms and dads are a promise from God that you will have a friend forever.” 
 
 Investigators and neighbors are still trying to piece together what started this tragic incident. 
 
 “The mother was nice. You wouldn't expect it if they told you this is what was going to happen,” one neighbor said. “I don't think anybody, at least a sane person, would do that.” 
 
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– Police have released the heartbreaking 911 calls placed in the moments before Texas mom Christy Sheats killed her two daughters Friday. In the first of three calls—which are "difficult to listen to," say police—Madison, 17, and Taylor, 22, can be heard pleading with their mom not to shoot. "Please forgive me, I'm sorry," a voice says, per the Houston Chronicle. "Please don't shoot, I'm sorry." A scream is then heard, followed by a male voice believed to be that of husband and father Jason Sheats pleading, "Please don't point that gun at us … I beg you, please put it away," per KHOU. "I promise you whatever you want," the man continues before the call ends. A second call includes only muffled voices, screams, and shouts, per the Chronicle. In a third call, a neighbor describes the two daughters lying in the street. He watches as a woman in a purple dress emerges from the house with a gun and stands over one of the victims. "She's trying to shoot again … but apparently she don't have any more bullets," he says, per the Dallas Morning News. He watches the woman go back inside to reload, then return. "Oh! She shot her again," he says, per KHOU. "From the back. She was trying to run." He then hears more gunfire and sees the shooter on the ground—killed by a police officer's bullet. A family friend says Sheats had recently moved back into the home and hid a gun in a couch before calling a family meeting. Fort Bend County police say they received a dozen calls from the home in four years, including three regarding suicide attempts. It isn't clear who the calls were about.