The couple found their most youthful girl Megan Parra lying on the floor of her lounge room.
Missy Ducote: I had no clue about what was to happen to this.
The 29-year-old mother of two seemed to have been shot in the head.
Steve Ducote: It was a 357 magnum weapon with the 38 type shot..
Only one day sooner, Megan’s folks and her better half, then-30-year-old Dustin Parra, had been managing the outcome of a fender bender.
Missy Ducote: Dustin called … and said that Megan had been in a mishap.
Megan was separated from everyone else driving down a stretch of street not a long way from home when she some way or another lurched off the street and hit a tree. Dustin got their two youthful children and hurried to the scene. So did Steve and Missy Ducote.
Steve Ducote: Cop said she was going around 45 miles 60 minutes, wasn’t on her telephone. Had her safety belt on.
Megan had just minor wounds. In any case, a state officer was grieved by the way that there were no pallet marks.
Missy Ducote: that’s what he said … she had not applied the brakes.
Steve Ducote: Cop came, and he asked me, “would your little girl need to attempt to hurt herself?” I said, “No, I have to take a hard pass.”
Yet, it was not satisfactory whether Megan really attempted to stop the vehicle. Missy Ducote says Megan told her she was diverted.
Missy Ducote: She said she had lost center.
In any case, Steve Ducote says Megan let him know that the brakes didn’t work, and that she hit that tree to keep away from the waterway. Be that as it may, the brakes were rarely tried. At the Avoyelles Ward Medical clinic where Dustin functioned as a medical attendant, Megan was treated for a slice to her right hand. Once delivered, Dustin brought his significant other back home, while Missy and Steve Ducote kept their young men short-term. The following morning, around 7 a.m., Megan messaged her mom.
Missy Ducote: “Hey mother. Are — are the young men alright? … are you all alright?” … I called her. … And … I told her that, um when the children would get up and I had fixed breakfast, we would … welcome her morning meal and go keep an eye on her.
David Begnaud: Anything sound uncommon?
Missy Ducote: Not by any stretch of the imagination.
About an hour after the fact, Missy Ducote says Dustin called her to say that Megan planned to scrub down while he went out to fill a remedy for her at the neighborhood Walmart.
Missy Ducote: He said he would … get the children coming back. … All things considered, an hour has passed by he’s as yet not here. … and afterward I said … how about we go, we — we really want to go.
It was near 10 a.m. at the point when Steve and Missy Ducote showed up at their girl’s home with their grandkids close behind. There they found Megan lying on the floor with blood pooling around her head.
Missy Ducote: She was still in the paper shirt from the emergency clinic … and … clothing.
Steve Ducote: I snatched the most seasoned kid. Furthermore, when I hung over to get him … I saw the firearm sort of tucked against her leg.
Missy Ducote called her folks to get the children. Steve Ducote called 911. Missy, a medical caretaker specialist, bowed close to her little girl acknowledged she actually had a heartbeat.
However, missy Ducote: She was breathing … scarcely.
Steve Ducote called Dustin.
Steve Ducote: I can’t recall precisely in the event that I let him know Megan committed suicide or Megan shot … herself.
Steve Ducote: And I said, “where are you?” He expressed, “I’m in Mansoura. I just got through the … four-way stop sign.”
Dave Blanchard was the primary official on the scene.
Dave Blanchard: I went into the house, saw the casualty on the floor … Mrs. Ducote … was controlling medical aid to the head region.
Dustin Parra showed up around 10 minutes after the fact.
Steve Ducote: He comes running in … and he slides, and he simply gets the finish of the blood.
Missy Ducote: Later … he slid … He got up, he drove the firearm away.
Missy Ducote says Dustin then ventured into a pocket in Megan’s paper shirt.
Missy Ducote: And he took out an image.
It was an image of their young men.
Dustin and Missy, both therapeutically prepared, attempted to save Megan. Minutes after the fact, paramedics showed up. That is when Blanchard started reporting the scene.
Dave Blanchard: I would have rather not meddled in them giving the emergency treatment.