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TABERNACLE, N.J. (AP) — An 11-year-old New Jersey boy who was critically wounded last week when his mother killed herself and his two siblings died from his injuries Wednesday.
Alexander Harriman died at a hospital where he had been treated since the Nov. 20 shootings, state police said.
Jeannine LePage, 44, shot her three children inside the family's home in Tabernacle, a town in the New Jersey Pinelands that's about 30 miles east of Philadelphia, authorities said. But they have not said what may have prompted LePage to do so, saying it was a mystery that may never be solved.
Authorities have said LePage used a handgun that had been purchased legally and was in the family for decades. She allegedly used a pillow to muffle any noise so five other relatives who lived in the home wouldn't hear what was happening when she shot her children.
Nicholas Harriman, 14, and Nadia, 8, were killed in the home. LePage died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound three days after the shooting.
LePage and her children were found in the same bed by a family member who called 911, police said.
The children's father did not live in the house.
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