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

[keek]

Although court documents may not tell the whole story, there is documentation that the courts did find problematic behavior from the mom:

Docs reveal longtime custody dispute after mother, daughter found dead in Las Vegas hotel

A mother shot and killed her 11-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself in a Las Vegas hotel room over the weekend in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.

www.fox5vegas.com

McGeehan temporarily lost custody of Addi in 2020 after the court determined she had acted in ways that could alienate the child from the father. Documents also revealed she had committed domestic abuse in front of Addi and said McGeehan’s ability to co-parent was in serious question.

It was clear re the mother and look what 'the mother did'. Enough said. IMO

 

[georgiajean]

Custody battles can be so ugly. And it does not excuse this person for what they did (killing their child).

I do wonder where the truth was in the years of custody issues. Anger and hurt can cause people to be adamant about "winning" instead of putting the child's needs first. No child needs to see their parents at war constantly.

I wonder what caused the parents to split up originally?
When did the new wife enter the picture?

 

[Detectivediva]

For those of you questioning why no one seemed to notice the gunshots, a silencer could have been used.

 

[HoneyBunOne]

For those of you questioning why no one seemed to notice the gunshots, a silencer could have been used.

I learnt on this site that a silencer doesn't silence a gunshot sound enough to not be heard.

 

[Detectivediva]

I learnt on this site that a silencer doesn't silence a gunshot sound enough to not be heard.

Admittedly so, but it certainly would help.

 

[websleuth314]

Exclusive | Utah dance mom ‘spiraled’ after getting ‘mean’ texts from another parent before murder-suicide: sources

“There’s one or two ladies that she never got along with and it got really bad a month ago,” Connie McGeehan, 61, told The Post.

nypost.com

Tawnia McGeehan, 38, had been having problems with “one or two” other women with daughters in the Utah Xtreme Cheer (UXC) team, of which her daughter, Addi Smith, was a part, according to her mother.

“There’s one or two ladies that she never got along with, and it got really bad a month ago,” Connie McGeehan, 61, claimed to The Post.

“In the last comp they had, another girl got dropped and some of the moms were saying it was because of Addi. They were texting [Tawnia] mean stuff and blaming Addi.

 

[airportwoman]

I am struck by the fact that two shots were reportedly fired, and they went unnoticed. I don't know if this speaks to the fact that the hotel itself is noisy, that the floor where the room is located was empty when it happened, or that people assumed it was a movie or some other banging noise coming from the room.

I'm thinking the "mother" may have used a silencer.

 

[icerink47]

The fact that the car was still in the hotel parking lot is very concerning. That suggests they didn’t plan to go far, if at all. I hope LE is pulling camera footage from the hotel and surrounding areas.