Tributes person poured successful from heartbroken loved ones of a mother-of-three aft she jumped implicit Niagara Falls with her 2 young children.
Chaianti Means, 33, Roman Rossman, nine, and five-month-old Mecca Means stepped implicit the guardrail astatine Luna Island and fell to their deaths connected Monday night, according to New York State police. Their bodies person not yet been recovered.
Officials have said the plunge was 'intentional', but added that the 'circumstances stay nether investigation.'
The woman's friends person present taken to Facebook to grant the 'dearly loved' parent and pass that 'you truly ne'er cognize what anybody is going through'.
Means, who lived successful the greater Niagara Falls country with her family, worked arsenic a domestic violence counselor, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Chaianti Means, 33, Roman Rossman, 9, and five-month-old Mecca Means stepped implicit the guardrail astatine Luna Island connected Monday nighttime and fell to their deaths
Roman Rossman, nine, and five-month-old Mecca Means
'I can't adjacent bare to constitute a station astir her and stock memories,' Mich Molina wrote.
'I americium virtually sick to my tummy and I can't adjacent woody with the emotions I americium feeling. Just cognize her and her children are dearly loved by maine and my children.'
'I person been speechless and crying and couldn't slumber astatine all,' Kayshawna Morgane said successful a Facebook post. 'My bosom is broken. Mental wellness is nary joke.'
'You truly ne'er cognize what anybody is going through….RIP,' said Niesha Eukeya.
'So atrocious you didn't consciousness similar you could crook anyplace other Chianti,' Shanti Kendyll added.
Amanda Lynn Marie Roberts-Conrad posted 'my sweet, saccharine friend,' followed by 4 breached bosom emojis.
A parent and her 2 children person died aft jumping implicit Niagara Falls connected Monday nighttime (stock image)
Means worked arsenic a home unit counselor, according to her LinkedIn profile
Witnesses reported seeing radical spell into the Falls astir 9pm Monday, authorities trooper James O'Callaghan said successful a property release.
Means, on with her 2 children, are understood to person crossed implicit the 'safety guild rail' astatine Luna Island.
Luna Island is simply a tiny land betwixt the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls that, on with the Horseshoe Falls, marque up the fashionable tourer draw.
'The probe has determined that this incidental was intentional successful nature, though the circumstances stay nether investigation,' O'Callaghan said.
New York State Police and Park Police carried retired a hunt and rescue effort, but did not find the family's bodies.
Authorities are utilizing unmanned craft and underwater units successful the investigation, arsenic reported by Syracuse.com.
Last twelvemonth a mother from Illinois died, and her lad survived, aft she jumped with him from a 90-foot cliff onto the frozen banks of the Niagara Falls gorge.