A mother-of-three who posted TikTok vides of her husband’s brain cancer shot him and two of their children dead before turning the gun on herself.
Emily Long, 34, her husband Ryan Long, 48, their son Parker Long, 8, and their daughter Ryan Long, 6, were discovered with fatal gunshot wounds inside their home in Madbury, New Hampshire, on Monday, according to the state Office of the Attorney General.
‘A third child, a toddler, was found alive and suffered no physical injuries,’ stated the office on Tuesday.
‘Each of the deceased family members appears to have suffered gunshot wounds, and were pronounced dead at the scene.’
The incident is being investigated as a potential murder-suicide, the office said.
Their autopsies were conducted on Wednesday and confirmed that Emily killed her husband and two kids, then shot herself. Her husband suffered several gunshot wounds, and the two kids had one each in the head, with all three ruled as homicides. Emily died of a single gunshot to the head and committed suicide.
Emily described herself in her TikTok bio as a ‘Brain Cancer Wife’. She stated she was using it as a ‘personal diary’.
She posted that she had a ‘plan to be a widow, and plan to support your family on one income and to be a single parent of three kids and juggle all the things that come with that’.
‘I’m mourning my husband, I’m mourning my marriage and it’s still there,’ she said.
‘It’s very confusing and it’s very overwhelming.’
A day before the incident happened around 5.30am, Emily in a final post admitted to feeling like she was in a ‘rut’.
‘I’m making a point to get out of my depression and do this for my family,’ she said.
The family lived in a $600,000 home. Her husband was a psychologist and professor.
Determining the motive is ‘very, very tricky’, said Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati in a video shared by WMUR.
‘Some that involved the idea of what was going on with the money situation, with the health situation, said Agati.
‘I think the big thing is to try not to speculate that there’s any one reason why something like this would happen.
‘Homicide and suicide is usually much, much more complex than just one reason.’
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