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I thought it was the wrong person. It had to be

“I couldn’t imagine anything in her life that could’ve made her snap,” Knowles told the TV station. “Your own children, I don’t know what could possibly go through someone’s head.”

Taylor and Madison Sheats had their mother’s bleach blonde hair and the three were close, according to messages and photos they posted on social media.

On Facebook last year, Christy Sheats posted a photograph of the girls on “Daughter’s Day.”

“Happy Daughter’s Day to my two amazing, sweet, kind, beautiful, intelligent girls,” Sheats wrote. “I love and treasure you both more than you could ever possibly know.”

In 2014, she posted a different photo of the girls hugging alongside a bible verse, James 1:17: “Every good and perfect gift is from above,” she wrote, quoting the verse. She added: “Today I am thankful for my two perfect gifts! They are very best friends – they make me so very proud to be their mother.”

Christy Sheats wrote often online about her faith, and on several occasions posted about her support of the Second Amendment and her right to bear arms.

“I have 10 guns. Obama wants 8 of my guns. How many guns do I have?” said one meme, over a photo of bullets and a gun. “That’s right, I have 10 guns.”

She captioned the photo: “That’s right! #merica.”

Alick Arnold, who grew up down the street from the Sheats family, told KTRK-TV that Jason Sheats loved his daughters.

“They were like best friends for sure,” he said.

The sheriff told the Chronicle that authorities are still investigating whether Christy Sheats was pointing her gun at police or at one of her fallen daughters when she was shot.

“As everyone is certainly aware, we had a terrible incident last night that involved the deaths of 3 people. An unimaginable tragedy that it seems we see too often,” Nehls wrote on Facebook the morning after the slayings. “Keep the family in your prayers.”