PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. – A mother killed her four children Tuesday, calling three of them back into her home to fatally shoot them before turning a gun on herself, police said.

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A 33-year-old mother went on a shooting spree early Tuesday in Port St. John, Fla., taking the lives of her four children and then herself.
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A 33-year-old mother went on a shooting spree early Tuesday in Port St. John, Fla., taking the lives of her four children and then herself.
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At one point, three of the wounded children ran to a neighbor’s house, but the mother, Tonya Thomas, 33, stepped outside and beckoned them to return to home where they were fatally shot.
The children were identified as Joel Johnson, 12; Jazzlyn Johnson, 13; Jaxs Johnson, 15; and Pebbles Johnson, 17, said Lt. Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. Thomas reportedly sent a text to a friend at about 3 a.m. saying she wanted to be cremated with her children, police said.
The friend did not receive the message until much later, Goodyear said.
“I’m a father and I’ve got kids,” the sheriff’s spokesman said. “I cannot comprehend a person doing that to their child … calling them back to the slaughter.”
Sheriff’s deputies and the county’s SWAT team responded to the home after a 5 a.m. call reporting that shots were fired.
The neighbor who called heard a knock and went to the door to find three of the children standing outside, asking for help, Goodyear said. At least one appeared to have been shot, and the neighbor handed the victim a towel.
At that point, Thomas stepped outside and told the children to return home. The children listened to their mother and walked back to the house, Goodyear said. Moments later, more gunfire ensued.

By Tim Shortt, Florida Today
Brevard County officers staff a command post Tuesday in Port St. John, Fla.. in response to shootings earlier in the day.
The officers spotted one shooting victim, the 17-year-old girl, lying in the front yard. Deputies pulled up, loaded her inside their patrol car and drove her to a waiting ambulance. Paramedics declared her dead at the scene.
Deputies saw movement inside the house, including what appeared to be a lit cigarette, Goodyear said. Then came a final shot.
Dispatch records released Tuesday show that authorities responded to Thomas’ house on three successive days in April.
In the first visit, on Easter Sunday, Thomas reported that her son had thrown a bicycle through a window at the house. The next day, Thomas called to report that her son had kicked and punched her when she tried to wake him up for school. The following day, child welfareinvestigators visited the house to look into allegations of inadequate supervision of the children.
Records also showed that Thomas was arrested in 2002 on a misdemeanor battery charge for striking the father of her children. The charge was later dropped. Two years earlier, she filed a domestic violence complaint against Joe Johnson, but that was dismissed after a hearing.
Police had been to the house previously, Goodyear said. One of the teens, Jaxs Johnson, was to appear in juvenile court Tuesday on a misdemeanor battery charge involving his mother.
Neighbors were stunned. .
Greg Tschanz and his wife, Jennifer, live a few houses away from the crime scene. He said he gave Thomas a used TV and often saw the kids playing outside.
“I cannot even come to grips with it,” he said. “It was a surprise to me to hear that the sheriff’s office had even been there before for domestic calls. Complete shock.”
Travis St. Peter, who lived about three houses down from the shooting scene until two days ago, said the family was known in the neighborhood for being disruptive. He said police were often at the house.
“They were just known for being hoodlums,” St. Peter said of the children before he knew their fate. He said the mother was regularly yelling at the kids, who were often running around the neighborhood late at night, “terrorizing our dogs and setting off firecrackers.”

Man goes mad after stealing phone in Machakos

Thursday, July 12, 2012 – There was a bizarre incident at Kaviani in Machakos County and now in that town there is a new mad man who is alleged to have been bewitched after he stole a smart phone from a paparazzi in the area.

The man in his mid 20s is said to have met up with the paparazzi at a popular bar in the area and hit up as friends immediately. The two drank together and exchanged thoughts on the current situations in Kenya.

At about mid night the man borrowed the paparazzi’s phone claiming that his phone had no credit and pretended to be talking to an influential person via the phone, he then stepped out of the bar and disappeared in the dark night.

The paparazzi on realizing that he had been robbed off his smart phone, just laughed saying that the man will pay for what he has done soon.

Days later the man was seen at the town collecting papers and eating from garbage containers in the area, talk of the case of riches to rags.

It is still unclear whether the paparazzi has offered to cast out the spell in exchange for his phone.

What Is The Key To Divine Intervention?

Is God in Control of Everything That Happens?

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[This article was taken from chapter 9 of our book Don’t Blame God! A Biblical Answer to the Problem of Evil, Sin, and Suffering.]

Now then, there are only two alternatives. Either God sometimes cannot intervene on our behalf, or He will not do so. There is only one place to find the will of God, and that is in His Word. There are many places in the Bible where we can look to see that God’s will is goodness, wholeness, health, and life for everyone, especially His own family. One of the clearest sections is the four gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which chronicle some of the life of the living Word, Jesus Christ, who said he always did his Father’s will (John 5:30; 8:29). As to Jesus’ attitude toward human suffering, James Martin states:

Of all the attitudes to suffering that the Bible reflects, that of Jesus must obviously be the most important; and it is plain that he did not regard it as punishment for sin nor as “sent” by God. He regarded it as something evil, the enemy of God and inimical to fullness of life, and so He sought to remove it wherever He could. [1]

In Jesus Christ, God intervened in the course of human misery, and through His Son, He continues to do so.

Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

Did Jesus heal “all” sick people in the world? Of course not, but he did heal every single person in his world that he could.

Matthew 8:16
When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.

Matthew 12:15
Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Many followed him, and he healed all their sick.

Jesus healed everyone who came to him for healing. But look at this next verse, in which the word “there” refers to Nazareth, where he grew up.

Matthew 13:58
And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

Why did Jesus not alleviate as much human suffering in his own hometown as he did elsewhere? Certainly it was not because his desire to do so had diminished. Rather, as the verse states, it was because the people there did not have faith in him to do so.

The ministry of Jesus Christ established that God and His Son will intervene in your life every time they can. The basic biblical pattern is plain: whenever and wherever God and Jesus Christ can help people, they do, and whenever and wherever they don’t, they can’t. Thus it is imperative to understand, to the best of our ability, what God’s Word tells us as to when and why He and His Son can intervene to help us, and when they cannot. We will see that this is primarily a legal issue, because, as we have stated, God is by nature a legal, i.e., a righteous, God.