Hi,
I haven't posted here in a really long time but this terrible crime happened where I live. It's horrendous, these poor kids. But there is A LOT more starting to come out b/c things just aren't adding up. I did not know any of the families involved but I do have friends that knew Mary Ann Holder and the Lambs. Consensus is MAH loved her kids and her deceased SIL's kids and they are in shock and don't believe she was the shooter of those 4 kids at her home.
TO clarify some things that have been posted, yes, MAH had an adult daughter that is taking care of her baby niece. Apparently, it was MAH's SIL that passed away in March from pneumonia right after childbirth. MAH took in the 2 older kids and MAH's daughter took the baby. Just last week MAH filed a court order to get legal custody of her SIL's 3 children.
Also news that has come out last night and just this morning: Sat night, the night before the shootings, MAH and Randy Lamb, the ex BF, met at Walmart parking lot where MAH gave him a $10K check made out to his wife Jennifer Lamb. They are saying it was b/c JL had started the process to file an alienation of affection lawsuit against MAH b/c she had been having an affair w/RL for 4 years. They are speculating this check was to settle out of court so JL did not file charges. Strange huh?
Also just today, a search warrant of the Lamb's home has revealed A LOT of guns and ammunition that was recovered in addition to computers, phones, etc. On the list of items is ammunition from a shotgun with 7 bullets missing = 7 people were shot on Sunday - interesting huh?
Also what is really strange to me is the 911 call placed by JL on Sun morning. After RL called his wife - NOT 911 - to say he'd been shot by MAH at the GTCC parking lot, JL was the one to call 911. He drove himself home with gunshot wounds. Why not call 911 right there to say he was shot and there was a woman armed on the loose? But instead he called his wife and drove 15 mins home. The wife did not sound that upset to me either.
There is a lot still to come out but from what my friends say and what I am hearing I would not be suprised if it turns out MAH did not shoot those 4 kids at home. Cops *say* they saw her shoot herself in the car and her 14 yo son was in the car with a gunshot to the head but he was in the backseat - she picked him up from her BFF's house from a sleepover, he could've been in the front. Strange to me. But this is the part I am having a hard time with b/c cops say they saw her shoot herself so maybe she did shoot all those kids but there is A LOT more to this story we don't know.
Four people dead, includes her 2 sons and her 8 yo niece. The 2 children still in the hospital are on life support and my friend knows the dad of the young 15 yo girlfriend and he told her she is brain dead and there's nothing more docs can do that she will die. It's all very, very heartbreaking and this Pleasant Garden area is a small community and very affected by this, especially all the kids at the schools where these children went.
I just hope they can get more information on to what happened b/c no one saw RL at the GTCC parking lot with MAH, this is all his word.