A MOM told her three-year-old son to ‘say goodbye to daddy’ in a heartbreaking 21-second video before killing him and herself in a murder-suicide.
Savannah Kriger, 32, shot son Kaiden before turning the gun on herself on March 18 – a day before she was due in court for a custody hearing, according to cops.
Cops made the horror discovery at a ditch in San Antonio, Texas 19 hours later.
Savannah sent husband Brian a blood-curdling text moments before reaching for her firearm.
“Say goodbye to your son,” she wrote.
“She sent the message on the tail end of a wire transferring all the money out of [our] joint account,” Brian revealed.
“I assumed she was running with him – that’s what prompted my lawyer to initiate the order for writ to make her appear in court the next day.”
Following attempts to FaceTime Brian, a 21-second video found on Savannah’s phone appeared to show both Savannah and Kaiden at the drainage ditch.
She tells the child to “say goodbye to [his] daddy,” before apologizing that Kaiden’s father “can’t be there with [him].”
Two hours before the murder-suicide, Savannah stormed into Brian’s property and vandalized his belongings.
She then rushed to pick Kaiden up from daycare for a doctor’s appointment, at which point she called her husband via Facetime.
“You don’t have anything to go home to now, you really don’t,” she said. “You won’t have anything at all at the end of the day.”
“You left us for a piece of a–… Daddy left us for some woman he met on the internet… explain to your son why you’re not here,” she said, the toddler in the back seat.
When he asked why she vandalized objects in his home, Savannah replied that he “cared more about [his] material possessions than his son.”
The couple had filed for divorce on March 7, according to court records.
Savannah had a restraining order against her husband at the time of the tragegy, per Bexar County Court records.
You won’t have anything at all at the end of the day
Savannah Kriger
Cops say a firearm found at the crime scene was legally purchased from a friend.
“It was a legal gun,” according to Sheriff Javier Salazar.
“It was hers.”
Brian paid tribute to his “sweet and loving son” following his tragic death.
“He had so many friends and family that loved and adored him and I miss him so much,” he said.
“I thought he was so funny and he was so smart for his age.
“He was going to be something special, he had so much life ahead of him.”
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