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The murdered wife of a Florida football fanatic accused him of drug and alcohol abuse in a haunting note discovered by investigators, a local sheriff said this week.
Crystal Kenney was shot Monday night by her husband Jason, who became enraged after a night of drinking when she asked him to turn off that night’s NFL game between his beloved San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts.
When police arrived at the Lakeland home, they found Crystal dead, her 13-year-old daughter suffering from gunshot wounds to the face and shoulder and the letter pleading for Jason to change his ways.
“You’re drinking, you’re using cocaine again. This is not the way the family should be. You need God,” the note states, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters Tuesday.
The message was undated but had been left for anyone to read, the sheriff added.
“We have no idea whether or not she wrote the letter [the night of the shooting] or this has been built up over time. That will be part of the investigation into the future,” Judd said.
“But it was there and it was open for the detectives to see. It’s not like we had to search it up in the house.”
Relatives told police that Jason Kenney, 47, was known to beat Crystal — but cops never received any domestic violence calls from the address.
“This is a family disturbance that apparently had gone on for some time. We talked to another family member and that family member said, ‘Oh, he’s been beating on her for a while,'” Judd said.
“She tells him, ‘You need God. You’re slipping into abuse of drugs and alcohol,’ and it ends up this way. And quite frankly, it’s it’s not surprising. Some women protect their husbands.”
Jason Kenney has no criminal history, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The Post Friday.
After shooting his wife and stepdaughter, Kenney drove to his deceased father’s house in nearby Lake Wales, where he shot himself in the head inside of a shed as police surrounded the property.
“Quite frankly, I don’t want to sound sinister, but the only thing he did right that night was shoot himself after those horrible deeds,” Judd said. “If he felt that way, he could have taken himself out and not hurt those two beautiful people.”
The 13-year-old was rushed to a local hospital and is expected to survive in what Judd called a “Christmas miracle.”
“She said, ‘I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, and he shot me anyway,” Judd said the teen told investigators.
Jason Kenney’s other stepchild, a 12-year-old boy who ran to a neighbor’s house for help after Crystal told him to call 911, was unharmed — as was a 1-year-old girl the couple shared whom investigators found sleeping in her crib.
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