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A Pleasant Garden, N.C., mother went on a shooting rampage , wounding her jilted lover, then hunting down and methodically shooting five children in the head, killing three of them.
Police said Mary Anne Holder, 36, shot six people on Sunday then turned the gun on herself, killing her sons Robert "Dylan" Smith and Zachary "Zach" Lee Smith, 14, as well as the 8-year-old niece she was raising, Hanaleigh Michelle Suttles.
Col. Randy Powers of the Guilford County Sheriff's Office confirmed the deaths and said that Holder had left two notes at her home, but he would not reveal their contents.
"I just can't believe it -- my best friend is gone," said Nick Couch, 15, whose mother Stacy Couch had been best friends with Holder for 10 years. "Zach stayed at our house Saturday."
In critical condition at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro -- all with gunshot wounds to the head -- are the nephew she was raising, Richard Brian "Ricky" Suttles, 17, and Makayla Kee Woods, 17, who was her son Dylan's girlfriend.
Source: ABC News