5 killed, Grieving Texas Mom Said Ex Was "Unstable"

CHICAGO (CBS) -- 

Authorities say a man walked into a rural North Texas home and shot his ex-wife's three children and her boyfriend dead before killing himself. Denton County sheriff's Capt. Orlando Hinojosa says the gunman also shot his ex-wife, but she survived and is receiving hospital treatment.

CBS Dallas Fort Worth reported that the grieving mother, Amanda Simpson, addressed family and friends in a public Facebook Live video from the hospital on Wednesday, where she was being treated with a bullet still lodged in her shoulder. Simpson said her ex-husband, identified by public records as Justin Painter, was the shooter, and expressed anger at the judge who handled their divorce, saying she had warned that he was "unstable" after he tried to commit suicide last year.

"I made it very clear to the judge that he was mentally unstable. And they didn't listen. So now, I don't have my babies," Simpson said through tears in the video.

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