911 call sheds light into family after Port Orange man kills children, self

PORT ORANGE, Fla.

Channel 9 continues to search for answers after a father shot his three children and then himself at his family's Port Orange home last week.

Last week, 52-year-old David Mohney shot his three children, killing two, before turning the gun on himself at their home in the Spruce Creek Farms subdivision.

A neighbor told investigators that he took action to keep David and Cynthia Mohney's children safe as the divorce between the couple had been getting heated.

Investigators said the only surviving child, 9-year-old Lauren Mohney, remains in stable condition at Arnold Palmer Hospital, where she is in a medically-induced coma.

Autopsies said the deaths of Savanna Mohney, 14, and David Mohney, 11, were the result of gunshot wounds.

Channel 9's Karla Ray learned the Mohney's neighbor, who Channel 9 is not naming, had been holding onto David Mohney's weapons out of concern for the family.

Just recently, the neighbor gave one of those guns back to David Mohney, who said he wanted to go shooting with a friend a few weeks ago. Mohney eventually used a 9mm handgun to shoot his children, though it's unclear whether it's the weapon that was returned to him.

Early that morning, Cynthia Mohney ran to the neighbor's house begging for help, saying her husband threatened her with a gun, authorities said. The neighbor then called 911.

"This has been a real screwy damn thing. Been going on for months," the neighbor told dispatchers.

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911 call sheds light into family after Port Orange man kills children, self