This is the mother who was shot dead by her ten-year-old son at their family home in a case which has shocked America.
It is believed the juvenile had argued with her after being asked to collect some firewood.
The 46-year-old, who can only be identified as Deborah for legal reasons, was found dead in her living room from a single gunshot wound to the head on Sunday in Big Prairie, Ohio.
The pair had argued over household chores, sheriff's deputy Nathan Fritz suggested yesterday.
He said: 'There may have been an argument over whether he should bring firewood into the house and possibly it escalated from there.'
Four weapons were found in the boy's bedroom.
On his bed were the .22 calibre rifle believed to have killed his mother and a 12-gauge shotgun. On a gun rack mounted to the wall hung two more .22 rifles.
Police were called to the house, in rolling farmland, after a neighbour called to say the boy had come to her home and said he had just shot his mother.
The neighbour told an operator: 'I'm her neighbour. I'm over here. She's bleeding from her head.'
When asked if she was breathing, the neighbour answered: 'No, she's bleeding.'
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