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Problem:A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said. 
  
 Emergency personell surround the scene of a multiple shooting in Port St. John, Brevard County, Fla., Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Sheriff's deputies in Brevard County said 33-year-old Tanya Thomas on Tuesday... (Associated Press) 
  
 Thirty-three-year-old Tonya Thomas fatally shot her four children, who ranged in age from 12 to 17, said Lt. Tod Goodyear, a spokesman for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. 
  
 Three of the children had gone to a neighbor's front door before dawn to say their mother had shot them. The mother then called the children back to the house and killed them, Goodyear said. 
  
 "From what the neighbors said, she was very calm. She walked out and called them back. They turned around and walked back to the house," Goodyear said. 
  
 The neighbor then heard gunshots and called 911. 
  
 Another neighbor told deputies that Thomas sent a text message in the middle of the night saying she wanted to be cremated with her children. 
  
 "He didn't see the text until he woke up this morning," Goodyear said. 
  
 Deputies identified the children as Pebbles Johnson, 17; Jaxs Johnson, 15; Jazlin Johnson, 13; and Joel Johnson, 12. 
  
 The shooting happened in Port St. John, about 15 miles west of Cape Canaveral in an area known as the "Space Coast" because it is the home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the location of numerous famed shuttle launches. 
  
 A spokesman for the Department of Children and Families wouldn't immediately comment on whether the family had a history with the agency. Goodyear said deputies had responded to the house for domestic complaints previously. 
  
 Jamie Hudson, whose mother lives two doors down from the family, said the boys in the family were known to shoot BBs at a home across the street and had threatened to set it on fire. 
  
 "It has been an ongoing problem on our street with them," Hudson said. 
  
 Goodyear said Jaxs Johnson had recently been arrested on a domestic violence charge. He said he didn't know if the boy had been accused of hitting his mother or causing damage at the house. 
  
 A pastor at the church the family attended described it as "normal stuff." 
  
 "I think he was punching some walls or something," said Jarvis Wash, pastor of the Real Church in Rockledge, Fla. 
  
 Wash said the family attended services last Sunday but had been absent for a few weeks before that. 
  
 "I don't know what could have happened in the past couple of days," Wash said. "It's a tragedy to the church and the community." 
  
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 Associated Press writers Christine Armario and Kelli Kennedy in Miami and Mike Schneider in Orlando contributed to this report. ||||| Tonya Thomas shot and killed her four children, ages 12-17, before turning the gun on herself. Authorities said three of the kids had sought help from a neighbor when Thomas called them back home and fired the fatal shots. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports. 
  
 Updated at 6:20 p.m. ET: A Florida mother killed her four children and then shot herself Tuesday morning as Brevard County, Fla., deputies closed in on her Port St. John home, authorities said. 
  
 Deputies said the mother, identified as Tonya Thomas, 33, sent a warning text message to a friend before the shootings, but the friend didn’t see the text until later. 
  
 Three of the children, at least one already wounded, fled to the home of a neighbor who had been awakened by gunfire, but Thomas immediately called the children back and killed them, sheriff’s spokesman Tom Goodyear said. 
  
 The neighbor called 911 as they left his home, Goodyear said. 
  
 See the story at NBC station WESH of Orlando 
  
 Tim Shortt / FLORIDA TODAY Brevard County sheriff's investigators say a mother took the lives of her four children during an early morning confrontation, calling three of them back into her home to fatally shoot them before turning a gun on herself, law enforcement sources report. 
  
 “She was very calm,” Goodyear said of the neighbor’s report. “She called them back and they walked back to the house.” 
  
 Arriving deputies found one of the children, Pebbles Johnson, 17, lying in the front yard of the Bright Avenue home and spotted a person at the front door, Goodyear said. The person ducked back inside after seeing deputies, he said. The teen was declared dead when she was transferred to an ambulance. 
  
 As a SWAT team arrived, officers heard gunshots inside. SWAT officers entered through a back sliding door just before 7 a.m., and found Thomas and three other children dead. They were identified as Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13, and Jaxs Johnson, 15. 
  
 Goodyear said the children’s father, who was separated from the family, had been notified of the deaths. 
  
 Also, a friend of Thomas told police she texted him during the night that she wanted to be cremated with her four children, Goodyear said. However, the friend did not see the text until after he woke up Tuesday morning and the incident was over. The friend, who was not identified, called police after seeing news of the deaths, he said. 
  
 Goodyear said police previously responded to the Florida “Space Coast” home, about 15 miles south of Cape Canaveral, for domestic disturbance calls involving Jaxs Johnson. He said the most recent call was about a month before Tuesday’s shootings. 
  
 "The cops have been called to that house many times because the kids were terrorizing the neighbors," neighbor Travis St. Peter told NBC station WESH. 
  
 Goodyear said that of Tuesday afternoon, authorities had no motive for the killings. 
  
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 Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook ||||| Deputies: Mother killed 4 children, self at Port St. John home Children went to neighbor's house before returning home 
  
 PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. - 
  
 A mother of four shot and killed her children -- three of whom returned home after fleeing -- before killing herself Tuesday morning at a Port St. John home, according to investigators. 
  
 The Brevard County Sheriff's Office said Tonya Thomas, 33, shot and killed her two daughters, 17-year-old Pebbles Johnson and 13-year-old Jazxlyn Johnson, and her two sons, 15-year-old Jaxs Johnson and 12-year-old Joel Johnson. 
  
 Brevard County sheriff's Lt. Tod Goodyear said three of the children went to a neighbor's house to say their mother had shot them. The mother then called the children back to the house and shot them again, killing them, investigators said. 
  
 "From what the neighbors said, she was very calm. She walked out and called them back. They turned around and walked back to the house," Goodyear said. "I’m a father and I've got kids. I cannot comprehend a person doing that to their child -- calling them back to the slaughter." 
  
 The neighbors called 911 just before 5 a.m. and deputies found Pebbles Johnson dead in the front yard of the home at 7245 Bright Avenue. 
  
 Deputies then spotted someone at the door, later identified as Tonya Thomas, and called the SWAT team, who later entered the home and found four people dead. Neighbors told Local 6 they were informed of the spotting of Tonya and told to evacuate. 
  
 "We have no idea on motive right now," said Goodyear, who added that no note or letter has been discovered. 
  
 The father of the children lives elsewhere in Brevard County and was very distraught upon hearing the news, Goodyear said. 
  
 A friend of Thomas told authorities that Thomas sent a text message around 3 a.m., saying she wanted to be cremated with her children. The message wasn't received, however, until after the friend woke up, which was after the family was found dead. 
  
 More than a dozen deputies and SWAT team members had converged on the home and the neighborhood was cordoned off during the investigation. 
  
 A spokesman for the Department of Children and Families wouldn't immediately comment on whether the family had a history with the agency. Goodyear said deputies had responded to the house for domestic complaints previously. Thomas has no significant criminal history, and domestic battery charges against her were dropped in 2002. 
  
 Jamie Hudson, whose mother lives two doors down from the family, said the boys in the family were known to shoot BBs at a home across the street and had threatened to set it on fire. 
  
 "It has been an ongoing problem on our street with them," Hudson said. 
  
 Goodyear said Jaxs Johnson had recently been arrested on a domestic violence charge. He said he didn't know if the boy had been accused of hitting his mother or causing damage at the house. 
  
 A pastor at the church the family attended described it as "normal stuff." 
  
 "I think he was punching some walls or something," said Jarvis Wash, pastor of the Real Church in Rockledge, Fla. 
  
 Wash said the family attended services last Sunday but had been absent for a few weeks before that. 
  
 Tonya Thomas got pregnant with Pebbles three months after her 15th birthday by Joe L. Johnson, Jr., who was 19-years-old at the time. Thomas worked as a bank teller and a student assistant but often sought help from Johnson and her mother. Thomas was unemployed on food stamps, seeking child support from Johnson, but he rarely paid and owed more than $17,000 by 2008 when Thomas stopped trying. 
  
 Court records show that domestic violence was common between the couple, but after one battery, Thomas asked a judge to let Johnson back into the home to "help us become a family again." 
  
 Jaxs Johnson was set to appear in juvenile court on Tuesday for a misdemeanor battery charge involving his mother, but it's not known if the hearing played a role in the shootings. 
  
 Tuesday night, friends and neighbors started a memorial in front of the Thomas' home. 
  
 "We want people to know that they weren't forgotten, no matter what happened today," neighbor Tony Amador said. 
  
 School officials issued a statement after being informed of the deaths. 
  
 "Brevard Public Schools is saddened to learn of the tragic deaths of four of its students. The police have released the students' names and crisis teams/grief counselors have been sent to the respective schools to help students, faculty and staff deal with this heartbreaking news," school officials said. 
  
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Solution:
A 33-year-old mother shot and killed her four kids, ages 12 to 17, before killing herself as police closed in on her home today, reports MSNBC. Police say they don't have a motive, but they say Tonya Thomas sent a text to a friend about 3am declaring that she wanted to be cremated with her children. The friend didn't see it in time, notes CNN. The shooting apparently started about 5am. The gunfire woke up a neighbor, who opened his door to find three of Thomas' children there, apparently fleeing. Thomas called them home, they obeyed, and she shot them. "She was very calm," said a police spokesman. "She called them back and they walked back to the house." The neighbor called 911, and police arrived to find Pebbles Johnson, 17, fatally wounded on her front lawn, reports AP. When the SWAT team arrived, police heard more shots inside and found Thomas, along with Joel, 12; Jazlin, 13; and Jaxs, 15. The latter child was due to appear in juvenile court today over some kind of domestic violence charge, but it wasn't clear whether that played any role in the shootings, notes WKMG of Orlando. The shootings took place in Port St. John, Brevard County.