Found Deceased NV - Mother and young daughter: Tawnia McGeehan and Addi Smith missing in Las Vegas after not arriving for cheer competition. February 14, 2026

[nhmemorymaker]

I
i also wonder if Addi's father came to Las Vegas for this special event.
Clearly not with Mom and Addi..... but perhaps he was there to support his daughter....

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I think we might all agree on is that this mother was having a crisis of some sort, and in the middle of that she decided that the only solution was this particular course of action.

I don't judge, but I honestly feel crushed by this. Everyone, at one point or another, feels close to the end of their tether. We've had parenting moments that have been difficult; my first marriage, well, that ended with my ex-husband holding his gun and saying he was dirt and wanted to end it all, and I told him -absurdly calmly- to just take the bullets out and put it down on the pillow. He's the ex for a reason...I still (nearly 30 years later) do not trust him for a reason.

Poor child. I always go back to the horror the child must have felt in that split second when the trust is broken. And all the other children who are now experiencing the realization of what has happened... This hurts my heart.

I'm sorry you went through this, it's a horrible situation nobody should ever endure.

Can you imagine all these young children, pre teens, who now have to deal with the fall out and likely start to question their own mothers? To a young, developing brain, if they can see that one mother killed her own child, they have to wonder what's to stop their own mothers doing the same. The ripple effect of this is huge.

 

[Athos65]

I'm sorry you went through this, it's a horrible situation nobody should ever endure.

Can you imagine all these young children, pre teens, who now have to deal with the fall out and likely start to question their own mothers? To a young, developing brain, if they can see that one mother killed her own child, they have to wonder what's to stop their own mothers doing the same. The ripple effect of this is huge.

It breaks my heart to think of children having to face this sort of fear. It's bad enough that they feel overwhelmed by all the influences around them through social media, special backpacks that stop bullets, active shooter drills...and now, Lord Jesus, thinking a girl just like them was killed by her own mother...

It's more than my brain can process. Children deserve better. I don't know what this mom was going through; I can't make assumptions, but maybe some help was needed, and she either didn't seek it out, or no one saw the signs because she masked them well.

For all we have so many gadgets to communicate with each other, we've lost the art of actually communicating with each other.

 

[airportwoman]

From her FB Page, her grandpa almost a year ago to the date. Wonder if that had a bearing on this.

Whose grandpa what?

 

[keek]

‘Dance mom’ who killed daughter at Vegas cheer contest won control of 11-year-old after nasty court battle

Addi Smith, 11, was found shot dead alongside her mother, Tawnia McGeehan, 38, at the Rio Hotel & Casino on Sunday.

nypost.com

"Court papers reveal McGeehan and her ex-husband, Brad Smith, spent a bitter nine years fighting for custody of Addi following their divorce —'

"Under their split custody arrangement, the court played a hand in orchestrating every detail of how the young girl was handed off between the parents after visits at their respective homes.

The couple was ordered to park their cars a full five spaces apart during custody handovers at Addi’s school, and she was made to walk between the parents’ vehicles by herself."

"At times, school wasn’t in session, the parents were ordered to conduct the handover outside the Herriman Police Department in Utah at 9 a.m. every Monday."

"The divorce decree documents, first reported on by Daily Mail, gave McGeehan decision-making authority over Addi as the divorce petitioner. "


Sounds very toxic IMO.

Ends up killing her after providing a nightmare sounding life for about all of her years. IMO