Aaron’s family said Vivian was supposed to return home to her father that evening. (Photo credit: X/Eric Daugherty)
Cibelle Savella, 35, was supposed to hand over her daughter, Vivian, to her ex-husband, Aaron Savella, on Tuesday evening. Police were called to the residence at around 5:45pm and found Vivian dead and Cibelle with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on the third floor. She was taken to a hospital but died a day later, police said, the New York Post reported. They are not believed to have been involved in the shootings, the NY Post reported.
A Texas mother allegedly killed her four-year-old daughter in an apparent murder-suicide, just hours after a court granted primary custody of the child to her father, who said she was “supposed to come home to him that evening”. Instead, she fatally shot the child at their Houston home before turning the gun on herself, according to the Houston Police Department and family attorneys. Cibelle’s new husband, restaurateur Greg Kubala, and a babysitter were inside the house when the shots were fired, according to police and local media reports. “There was a custody hearing earlier today that didn’t go well for the mother,” Houston Police Lieutenant Larry Crowson said after the incident.
In a statement released through his attorney Stefani Shapiro, Aaron’s family said Vivian was supposed to return home to her father that evening.
There are no words for what has been taken from us,” the statement said. “Our family is devastated. Vivian was four years old. She was loved without limit by her father, Aaron, and by everyone whose life she touched.