Woman Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity for Killing Children

Woman Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity for Killing Children
Claudena Helton. Montgomery County Jail
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DAYTON, Ohio—An Ohio judge has agreed a woman was insane when she killed her two children and has ordered her institutionalized at a mental health facility.

Thirty-one-year-old Claudena Helton was charged with aggravated murder for fatally shooting 8-year-old daughter Khmorra and 6-year-old son Kaiden in May 2017 in the southeast Ohio city of Dayton.