Two children killed in murder-suicide

Family members became concerned Monday after receiving text messages from Gresham. Investigator David Cochran with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said family members went to Old Woods Bridge Road because it’s an area where Gresham went.

“He frequented this area a lot,” Cochran said.

Gresham was found inside a vehicle on the road and the two children were outside the car.

Law enforcement officers believe the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute between Gresham and the mother of the children. Both children had Gresham’s last name but only the youngest was his biological child.

“Apparently Keith Gresham and the children’s mother were in an ongoing domestic dispute,” Cochran said. “She had filed a temporary protective order against him with courts. He had been angry over this. That is what we think is the motive of this.”

Gresham’s former girlfriend - the mother of both children - had summoned Commerce police to her Wesley Way residence because of the nature of the text messages after Gresham had failed to appear for a probation revocation hearing that morning.

Their mother said she’d let them go with Gresham so he could see them before he went to jail, according to the Commerce incident report.