Chilling reason paranoid mom gave for shooting dead two of her children at hellish gas station scene

A paranoid Texas mother accused of fatally shooting two of her children told police she had to ‘kill them all’ before they got to her, court documents revealed. 

Oninda Romelus, 31, allegedly murdered her 13-year-old son and three-year-old daughter Saturday morning before calling police and arriving at a Shell gas station in Angleton. 

When officers arrived at the scene they were not quite sure what they were responding to, but then absolute horror took over. 

They found the mother’s Audi Sedan running with all its doors open as her four children were seen inside with some of their bodies covered in a white sheet, court records obtained by ABC13 said. 

Her teenage son was found slumped over in the passenger’s seat with gunshot wounds. Deputies also found three other children in the backseat who were shot, according to records.

The two surviving children, an eight-year-old boy and nine-year-old girl, are in stable condition after being airlifted to a nearby hospital, the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office said. 

When Oninda, who appeared as a teen mom on Paternity Court TV in 2013, was interviewed by officers at the county jail she told them: ‘Instead of them doing it to me, I’m going to do it to them.’ 

An investigator then clarified: ‘Do what?’ as Oninda replied, ‘Kill them all,’ per the records. 

Oninda Romelus, 31, said she had to ‘kill them all’ after she allegedly shot her four children early Saturday morning. Two of them, her 13-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, died

 Police were called to a local Shell gas station (pictured) by Romelus. When they arrived, they saw the four children in the car, some with a white sheet over them. All of them had been shot 

During her conversation with police, Romelus also appeared paranoid as she was caught looking toward the door on multiple occasions, according to court records. 

She also told investigators that she should she was calling the ‘devil,’ not 911, the Houston Chronicle reported. 

One investigator said what she told them ‘didn’t make sense’ a lot of the time. She managed to name her kids and give their ages, adding ‘They were with the devil,’ when Romelus was asked where they were.  

Romelus has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She remains in jail on a $14 million bond. 

Investigators said they believe the children were shot inside the car at another unknown location before Romelus drove to the gas station. 

After the gruesome discovery, investigators made their way to Romelus’ home in Montgomery County. 

A neighbor who preferred to remain anonymous said the community is very shaken up over the incident. 

‘It’s just heartbreaking,’ they told the outlet. ‘I just want to cry. It breaks my heart because there’s just… there’s no reason for it.’ 

The local said they used to see two of the four children walking in and out of the home almost everyday. 

‘[The] 13-year-old looked like a sweet young man taking care of his little sister, walking her home every day,’ they added. 

Romelus has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She remains in jail on a $14 million bond

Romelus had recently moved to Texas from Georgia. A neighbor who preferred to remain anonymous said the community is very shaken up over the incident

‘It’s going to be hard when we sit out in the afternoon not to see him bringing his little sister home and waving at them and telling him to be careful and have a good day.’ 

The tragedy came about a decade after Romelus appeared on Paternity Court TV to ask for help determining who was the father of one of her children. 

Romelus claimed she had cheated on her fiancé of four years, DeWayne Seymore, and thus did not know which of the two men was her child’s father. It later emerged that neither of the two men was the child’s dad. 

The child whose paternity was in question, named O’Karreo, would now be the same age as the child who was shot dead, but officials told the Daily Mail they will not be releasing the victim’s names out of respect for their family. 

Seymore was convicted in 2017 of being part of a gang who kidnapped a prosecutor’s father, as reported by 11 Alive.

‘I cheated him basically out of spite,’ Romelus explained after claiming Seymore had been first to cheat on her.

A DNA test determined that neither Seymore nor the other man, Jeremy Covington, were O’Karreo’s father.

Romelus worked as a tax agent and was originally from Haiti. She had recently moved to Texas from Georgia with her children.

The tragedy came about a decade after Romelus appeared on Paternity Court TV to ask for help determining who was the father of one of her children

James Chappell, who said he is the grandfather of the three-year-old who was killed, said he ‘didn’t see anything wrong with [Romelus’] personality before the alleged shooting

James Chappell said he is the grandfather of the three-year-old girl who was shot dead, and he identified her as Amari Chappell.

Chappell, who is also the grandfather of the injured eight-year-old boy, said his son, their father, is currently in prison.

‘She had a beautiful smile, just like her dad,’ Chappell told Click 2 Houston of little Amari.

‘I started crying immediately,’ he said about hearing the tragic news of the shooting. ‘That’s my grandbaby.’

Chappell added that he ‘didn’t see anything wrong with [Romelus’] personality before the alleged shooting.

‘She seemed like a beautiful person,’ said Chappell. ‘She had a wonderful job and everything.’

The Daily Mail contacted the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office for more information.