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The mother had tried to keep her 2-year-old daughter safe. She told the court in a motion last year that her daughter should not be left in her father's care unsupervised. Then, on Tuesday, the young girl was dead, her throat cut at the hands of her father, police say. What went wrong?
Sharing Jake's story - A Fort Myers mom has turned her pain into purpose after her son, her "heavenly Angel," took his own life.
Melinda Gould, 40, previously faced a stalking charge and had been on the hunt for a gun. She faces a felony punishable by life in prison.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says a woman he describes as "the perfect mother" was stabbed to death by her son, a pre-med student at the University of Florida, because "she got on his nerves."
Around 2:16 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 7600 block of Atlantic Boulevard in San Marco about a "suspicious man" who was walking around while waving a knife.