A black mother-of-four who killed her children and then herself said that she wants to be cremated with them, in a harrowing text message sent to a friend hours earlier

Tanya Thomas shot her four children, who ranged in age from 12 to 17. They were Joel, 12, Jazlin, 13, Jaxs, 15, and Pebbles Johnson, 17, all of whom lived with their mother.