{"id":19077,"date":"2026-02-17T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:28:19","slug":"mom-fatally-shoots-daughter-then-kills-herself-after-missing-cheer-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=19077","title":{"rendered":"Mom Fatally Shoots Daughter, Then Kills Herself After Missing Cheer Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"494\">A mother allegedly fatally shot her young daughter at the Rio Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas before taking her own life, authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. The bodies were found Sunday after the pair missed a scheduled cheerleading competition. Officers initially performed a welfare check around 10:45 a.m. but left when there was no response, returning hours later following family concerns.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"703\">The mother and daughter had traveled for the event. Utah Xtreme Cheer confirmed that pre-teen Addi Smith from Salt Lake City and her mother, Tawnia McGeehan, were missing and later announced Addi had died.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"891\">Police said the mother, in her 30s, shot Addi late Saturday. A note was found in the hotel room, but its contents were not disclosed. Investigators continue to probe the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"893\" data-end=\"1013\">If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, call 988 (U.S.) or visit 988lifeline.org for support.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTZo1PKpdHQ?si=kP5zvbn8059hab76\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A mother allegedly fatally shot her young daughter at the Rio Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas before taking her own life, authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. The bodies were found Sunday after the pair missed a scheduled cheerleading competition. Officers initially performed a welfare check around 10:45 a.m. but left when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=19077\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mom Fatally Shoots Daughter, Then Kills Herself After Missing Cheer Competition&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19080,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions\/19080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}