On December 22, the San Francisco 49ers took on the Indianapolis Colts. The routine game night at Lucas Oil Stadium, however, took a dark turn. Jason Kenney, 47, was at home and had been watching his favorite team, the 49ers, defeat the Colts 48-27, when his wife, Crystal Kenney, 38, “told him that she did not want to watch football” anymore.

Kenney was reportedly drinking that evening, and at around 11 pm, an argument began in the household. Crystal had urged her husband they watch something else, but the argument got heated. She asked her son, 12, to go to a neighbor and call 911. As the child left the house, he heard a g-nshot.

As per reports, responding deputies found Crystal’s body and her wounded 13-year-old daughter. The 13-year-old daughter was shot in the face, but is expected to survive.

“That’s a Christmas miracle,” said Sheriff Grady Judd about the teenager surviving. “Jason shot her twice and intended to kill her.”

“She said, ‘I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, and he shot me anyway,’” Judd said, quoting the girl.

The 12 and 13-year-olds were Jason’s stepchildren. Deputies also found the couple’s baby girl, whom they had together, asleep in her crib. She was unharmed.

After the incident took place, Kenney called his sister, who lives in New York, and told her, “I’ve done something very, very bad, very bad” and “This is the last time you’ll ever talk to me,” according to Judd.

“You’ll see me on the news, but I am not going to jail. I’m not going to jail for the rest of my life.”

When the deputies tracked down his location at his late father’s house, they coaxed him to come out. But soon, they heard a single gunshot from the shed at that place. He had shot himself.

However, this whole tragedy had warning signs.

The warning Crystal wrote for her troubled family

During their investigation, deputies found an old handwritten note Crystal had once left for her husband. A desperate plea asking her husband to seek help.

“You’re drinking, you’re using coc–ne again. This is not the way the family should be. You need God,” the note stated, according to Sheriff Grady Judd. Crystal saw him spiraling and tried to pull him back.

As of now, deputies have not been able to determine when the note was written.

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“We don’t know when she wrote the note. It’s not dated. There’s no time, there’s no indication, but it was open,” Judd said. “So did she write it as they argued earlier in the evening? Or had it been some period of time? We can’t determine that.”

Additionally, Crystal’s family revealed that she was a victim of domestic violence by her husband, but no reports to the local authorities were ever made.

“The entire family was destroyed,” Judd noted. “And I must tell you, our homicide detectives are distraught. When they go in there, there is a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of Christmas presents under the tree, just like the nuclear family should be.”

The presents were never opened. The tree stood there, decorated but hollow.

The children are now living with their grandparents.