Suicide Note Reveals Dark Side Of Mom Who Killed Son

Eyewitness News obtained a suicide note left by a mother who shot and killed her son then herself at a Casselberry gun range Sunday afternoon.

Marie Moore, 44, claimed the end of the world was coming and she wanted to save her son. Moore shot and killed her son, 20-year-old Mitchel Moore, after renting a gun at Shoot Straight Gun Range in Casselberry.

Moore wrote three suicide notes to her boyfriend, whom she called "King." She called herself "Queen" and her son "Prince."

SUICIDE NOTE: Read Marie Moore's LetterSURVEILLANCE: Mother Shoots Son | Images

But in her notes, she called herself the "Failed Queen" and said she had to save her son. Marie Moore had left suicide notes at home addressed to her boyfriend, writing, "I'm so sorry. I had to send my son to heaven and myself to hell." Also signed she signed the letter, "Failed Queen."

Surveillance of Mom pointing gun at son gun range 040709 SURVEILLANCE: Video | Images In another she wrote, "Save yourself you go to heaven with Mitch I love you forever and ever." A third note stated, "The tape explains everything."

However, Casselberry police said the tape is a rambling three-hour diatribe. Marie Moore seemed to be punishing herself for something she won't reveal and said she had to save her son in the recorded farewell tape that was found in her home.

"Hi King," Marie Moore said on the tape. "I'm sorry to leave you like this. I know this is a horrifying thing and I hate leaving you behind, but I had to save my son and send myself to hell for what I've done. I've screwed everything up for us. When you made me a queen. God tried to make me a queen too and you're really a king. I'm a fallen angel."

Marie Moore recorded her long rambling farewell to her boyfriend. She said she had never meant to live this long and that she had been in and out of mental hospitals. Moore said she had to save her son Mitch, whom she said was a prince.

"I had to save you from getting your head chopped off and you have a gun you can do it," Marie Moore said in the recording. "I have to die and go to hell so there can be a thousand years of peace on earth. God's turned me into the Anti-Christ."

Moore's ex-husband told police she had been banned from Shoot Straight Gun Range after a suicide attempt there years ago, but Shoot Straight said that never happened.

"There was no flag much less red flags to indicate this lady was going to do anything other than be a normal customer," Shoot Straight attorney Joerg Jaeger said.

Rules about renting guns are a looser than the laws regulating gun purchases, because there's no system in place for gun ranges to run background checks or to verify that customers are being truthful about their criminal and mental health histories.

Police say they are very worried for Marie's ex-husband who was Mitchel's father. He told officers he didn't know how he was going to get over his son's murder.

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