San Antonio, TX – A little late getting this one posted as my site wants to be an ass today, but the two kids who were shot by their mother during a standoff at a Texas welfare office are still alive today. As most of you heard by now, 38-year-old Rachelle Grimmer entered the welfare office Monday afternoon with her two children, 12-year-old Ramie Grimmer and her 10-year-old brother, Timothy Grimmer. She was really pissed off about a whole lot of stuff, including the fact that she had been denied food stamps. A supervisor took her into a private room so that they could discuss her case, and that’s when*Grimmer pulled out a handgun and started an hours long standoff with police.*The supervisor convinced Grimmer to let the other employees go, which she did, and stayed with Grimmer. Police tried to negotiate with Grimmer over the phone, but she kept hanging up, eventually*letting the supervisor go unharmed at around 7:45 p.m. Grimmer stayed inside the office with her children for a few more hours until around 11:45 p.m. when police heard three shots. A SWAT team then made entry into the building and found Grimmer dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and her two children critically wounded after having been shot by their mother. They were rushed to the hospital were they remain in “very critical” condition. No one is exactly sure what triggered Grimmer into doing what she did, as she had a long list of issues with state and federal government agencies and felt she was owed some kind of restitution. Texas Health and Human Services spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman said Grimmer was denied food stamps back in July because she didn’t provide all the necessary information needed to get them.
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