A woman who previously dated the man accused of fatally shooting her, her husband and six children texted her mother before her death that she was being held at gunpoint.

A woman who previously dated the man accused of fatally shooting her, her husband and six children had texted her mother before her death that she was being held at gunpoint.

Six children and their parents were fatally shot in the head at their Houston home by a man with a violent criminal history who was previously in a stormy relationship with the mother, police said.