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Mar 13, 2008 6:24 pm US/Central
Mom May Have Planned To Throw Kids Off Bridge
Marianne Martinez
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Dallas County Sheriff's Department
Khandi Busby's father is talking about his daughter and what may have led her to throw her two young sons off an east Dallas bridge Wednesday morning. He talked only with CBS 11 News.
Family members say they still don't know why Khandi would hurt her children. Thursday CBS 11 News learned the mother may have planned everything.
"I could not believe what my eyes were seeing," Khandi's father John said. The grandfather, who didn't want his full named used, says it all happen so fast. He watched his daughter throw her two children off the Jim Miller Bridge over Interstate-30 in Dallas, and then jump.
"Oh God. Then I noticed she picked up my grandson, my oldest grandson, she was yelling something at him then she just dropped him," John recalled.
The brothers, 8-year-old Gary Ford and 6-year-old Derrick Tennison, fell 22 feet onto I-30. "It just tears me up ya know, to see these kids suffer like that," John said.
John told CBS 11 News he was driving Khandi and her boys to a friend's home and had stopped to get gas. That's when the mother got out of the car and started walking toward the bridge.
In reflection, John says his daughter may have planned everything because he had tried to get him to drive onto a different bridge. "Seeing how the events unfolded, my mind flipped back and I thought, 'Oh man, she was trying to get me to go across there'. They might not have been as blessed as they are now because the traffic was swifter and the bridge is a little higher."
John says his daughter suffers from emotional and mental problems. Ironically, Khandi was going to check into a psychiatric facility this week. "She needed help and I was trying to get her that help the night before this happened," her father explained.
John told CBS 11 News his 8-year-old grandson, Gary, is in bad shape with a lacerated liver and a collapsed lung. The grandfather says young Derrick is doing okay physically, but doesn't know he's coping emotionally. "He doesn't quite understand the totality and seriousness of what has happened."
Once the boys are released from the hospital they will be placed with a family member.
Khandi Busby remains in Baylor Hospital charged with two counts of capital murder.
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