By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 01:05 EST, 1 June 2013 | UPDATED: 12:48 EST, 1 June 2013 The mother of a nine-year-old boy shot him five times in the home she shared with him and the boy's father in Steamboat Springs, Colorado then turned the gun on herself, according to a preliminary investigation by the Routt County Sheriff’s Office . Lisa Marie Lesyshen shot and killed her son Asher on Tuesday, leaving a note by the child's bed telling the father Michael Kirlan that he was to blame for her actions. Her husband was woken by the shots and called 911 as she asked him to kill her. She survived.
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Lisa Marie Lesyshen shot her nine-year-old son Asher five times at their home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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The boy's father Michael Kirlan awoke to the sound of gunshots
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Lesyshen turned the gun on herself but survived
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Investigators found a note written by Lesyshen telling Kirlan he is to blame for her actions
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'Remember you are responsible for what has happened here and you are the person that caused it,' she wrote, signing the note, '@placeholder and Asher'.