This did not have to happen?

Is this a face of a killer or a woman who needed help?

I know this story is all over the news and everybody is still trying to wrap their heads around what happen? As a mother of course I was thinking “how could this woman just up and kill herself and her babies? So many other questions came to my mind.

There was a part in this article that stated before this mother took her life and her children's life, she somewhat came to her senses but of course it was too late! I wonder if it was at that moment, she knew no issues were worth her killing herself or her children, and maybe I can move forward and build a better life for me and my children! Of course at this point in time we will never know. I’m sure you can think of at least one friend that you know is also having domestic issues? Of course we don’t want to get involved  but you don't have to get involved!  Just understand there's nothing wrong with giving a friend some encouraging words at times. You would not believe how words can change someone else's life!

I wonder if a friend or a family member’s encouraging words could’ve saved Lashanda Armstrong and her babies’ lives.

The unhinged mother who drove her minivan off a Newburgh dock and into the Hudson River told her four children that she wasn’t leaving this world alone.
“If I’m going to die, you’re going to die with me,” Lashanda Armstrong told the children before the vehicle sank to the bottom of the river just before 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the only surviving child told authorities.
Armstrong’s 10-year-old son, Lashaun, escaped the doomed family minivan – opening a power window and swimming to safety in the two minutes it took for the vehicle to sink.
But as he wriggled out of the window, his mother snatched his pants leg. “I made a mistake,” she said before finally releasing the boy, the child told authorities.
After swimming to shore, the dripping-wet Lashaun made it to the road, where he was picked up by Meave Ryan, a good Samaritan who took the boy to a nearby firehouse

“He was waving his hands, screaming ‘Help me!’” said Ryan, 31. “He said, ‘My mommy just drove the car into the water."


Shivering and barely able to speak, little Lashaun told firefighters how his mother had launched the van into the river with his siblings inside and how, just moments before, she dialed her dad for help, the kids screaming in the background.
“I’m sorry, I’m going to do something crazy,” Armstrong said, according to the boy’s story
That prompted a 911 call that brought police to her Newburgh home, but it was too late.
Police wouldn’t confirm details of the domestic dispute that preceded the murder-suicide inside the tan van, but neighbors said Armstrong and longtime boyfriend Jean Pierre were frequent fighters in their second-floor home