KENNETH HOLMES Jr - 12 yo -(2010) Jamaica NYC NY

New York police say a Jamaican woman, frustrated over the
demands of raising an autistic child, shot the boy to death before
turning the gun on herself.

Police said 37-year-old Micaela Jackson and Kenneth Holmes, 12, were
found in the bed of the single mother's apartment in the Bronx on
Wednesday night with a single gunshot to their heads.

“I don't see the reason for any of this,” the child’s Jamaican father, Kenneth Holmes Sr, told reporters here.

“We were just getting ready to go to Jamaica, and now this,” he added.

Holmes, who was not married to Jackson, said he was shocked because
Jackson had just been promoted at her job at Montefiore Medical Centre.

“She was at a good point in her life,” he added.

Holmes said his son was “a gift,” adding that, while he was autistic, “he had charm.”

Police said they responded to a call on Wednesday night from Jackson's sister, who was worried because she could not reach her.

Police said the door of the apartment was locked and fastened with a
chain from the inside, strengthening investigators' belief that the
deaths were a murder-suicide.

Police said a 9-mm pistol was recovered close to the bodies.

The night before a Bronx
mom killed her 12-year-old autistic son and took her own life, she
posted a heart-wrenching prayer on her blog saying her life was in God's
hands."I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Jesus as my personal savior,"
Michaela Jackson wrote on It's Mick's World. "Now as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen."It
was the final, fateful entry on the 37-year-old Jackson's blog, which
included photos from a Friday post showing her dancing happily with her
son, Kenneth Holmes.


Jackson and her son were found dead Wednesday in the bed of their Morris Heights apartment.
Both had gunshot wounds to the head and a 9-mm. pistol lay nearby.Investigators
believe Jackson was strained by the demands of caring for her only
child. She left an anguished suicide note explaining her unthinkable
actions, police said yesterday."There's a note that says that, in essence,
she was overwhelmed by the child," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly."I'm
sorry it had to end this way," Jackson wrote in the note found taped to
the inside of the Loring Place apartment's bedroom door, said a police
source. It ended with the words, "I love you all."She also left
additional notes with contact information of people who should be
informed of her and her son's death, including the boy's father, school
and her workplace."Regardless of whatever happened, she loved
him," said the boy's devastated father, Kenneth Holmes Sr., 35, a
maintenance manager.Holmes wasn't married to Jackson but remained
close to her and had custody of his son every other weekend. He dropped
off the boy at his mother's home Sunday."Everything was fine," he said."It
cuts deep," he said. "I'm thankful for the 12 years he was here on the
planet, and the opportunities I had to talk with him and love him and be
with him."Jackson had recently been promoted at Montefiore Medical Center and
had tickets to go on vacation in Jamaica next weekend, leaving family and
friends dumbfounded by her actions."She worked her way up from a very starting-level position,
and was promoted now to a research assistant," said Steve Osborne, a Montefiore spokesman.
"Everyone loved her."Friends and neighbors said there were no signs Jackson was about to snap.
"She was a wonderful mother," said Erica Deaver, 50, a longtime family friend.
"She'd stand in front of a moving truck or a bullet for him."Jackson's uncle Anthony Cole,
52, a maintenance worker from Morris Park, said the family was struggling to find answers.
"This is a tragedy and it hit home," Cole said. "It hit everybody hard."