A MOM who threw herself off the brink of Niagara Falls with two of her young kids shared now-concerning posts about losing loved ones just weeks before her death.
Crews are urgently searching roaring waters for the bodies of Chianti Means, 33, nine-year-old Roman Rossman, and five-month-old Mecca Means.
LinkedinChianti Means, 33, threw herself over the brink of Niagara Falls with her two children on Monday[/caption]
APCops are searching the roaring waters outside Buffalo, New York, for Means and her sons Roman Rossman, nine, and Mecca Means, five months[/caption]
FacebookWeeks before her death, Means, who went by Diamond Scott online, posted about losing loved ones[/caption]
Means, who was from Niagara Falls, outside Buffalo, New York, scaled the guard rails with her children on Monday, and cops started looking for them that night, New York State Police said.
A massive search has been launched at Goat Island by 8 pm, with the New York Marine Patrol, Aviation, and Underwater Recovery Units joining the hunt, but no bodies have been found.
Means went by Diamond Scott online and was active on Facebook, posting lighthearted messages about love and dating just days before jumping from the falls.
However, at the beginning of October, the mom shared now-heartbreaking messages about death.
“You have to hold on to the ones you love,” she wrote in the tragic post.
“Never know when you might lose them.”
Days before this, she opened up about relationship issues, saying, “I wish someone would love me because the man that’s supposed to does not.”
In the post’s comments, she said she would be “cold & lonely all winter.”
In another post shared a few days later, she wrote, “Everyone please leave me alone I’m in love with my daughter father.
“I want my family back. Respectfully, idgaf what I said about him before or what anyone else thinks.”
The U.S. Sun spoke with a friend of Means, Amanda Roberts-Conrad, who said the two last connected at her son’s birthday party in summer 2023.
Means brought her son and her nephew to the celebration, and the trio had tons of fun playing in a bouncy castle together.
However, in recent months, Means had been having relationship troubles and was struggling, Roberts-Conrad claimed.
The U.S. Sun approached the New York State Police to see if they were investigating this issue, but they didn’t have a comment.
FacebookMeans was remembered as ‘kind and beautiful’ by a friend who spoke with The U.S. Sun[/caption]
‘KIND AND BEAUTIFUL’
Chaianti, a mom of three, worked as a domestic violence counselor, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Roberts-Conrad first met Means in 2012 when they got pregnant at the same time.
She remembers the mom as a great friend who always had comforting words when Roberts-Conrad was struggling.
“Diamond was kind and beautiful. I will remember her as such,” Roberts-Conrad said.
The friend slammed anyone who has been posting nasty words about Means instead of considering young mothers’ mental health issues.
“It makes me so sad to see people paint her a type of way,” she said.
“We need to bring more awareness to postpartum depression and possibly more safety down by the falls.
“This is a common occurrence in my city. It’s gut-wrenching.
“It really is a terrible loss.”
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.