Ashley Auzenne

Ashley Auzenne (March 3, 1980 - October 28, 2019) was an American woman who murdered her three children as part of a mass murder-suicide in 2019.

Background

Details revealed that Ashley and her husband, Murvin Auzenne, Jr., had been married for just over a decade, resulting in the births of their three children: Parrish, Eleanor, and Lincoln. The couple divorced in 2019, and it was finalized in late October. Auzenne Jr. told The Houston Chronicle Wednesday his estranged wife was “very upset” with the result.

She was concerned she’d not be able to move with the kids to her hometown, and would need to find a job and pay him rent if she stayed in their current home, he said.

“Ashley tried her best to be a good mother,” Auzenne Jr. said. “She and I had our issues, we argued and fought just like any other couple headed for divorce, but I never had any reason to believe she was capable of this. Nobody did.”

Auzenne framed her Facebook profile picture with an “#End Gun Violence” banner. On Halloween 2018, she posted about her battle with lupus, sleep apnea, arthritis, depression and anxiety.

Ashley shot her three children to death. Afterwards, she committed suicide by shooting herself, and it was on the following morning (October 29) that the bodies of Ashley and her children, who were aged 11 (Parrish), 9 (Eleanor), and 7 (Lincoln) at the time of their deaths, were found during a welfare check. The investigation into the deaths was concluded on Thursday (October 31), and it was officially ruled as a mass murder-suicide committed by Ashley.