Sara Gilson’s family members are remembering the influencer within the days since she was allegedly killed by her estranged husband, Shawn Duffey, in a surprising murder-suicide.
“Her final day, she was glad,” Gilson’s greatest good friend Kelsi Lard informed Folks in an interview printed on Sunday, July 26, sharing that she was along with her “the identical day her life was taken.”
Lard continued, “As all the time, she was cracking jokes and making me giggle. I’ll miss her a lot. I don’t need her life to be diminished into what occurred ultimately. She introduced a lot pleasure to all of us, and I’ll miss her daily.”
Lard shared that she thinks Gilson, whom she had been buddies with for greater than twenty years, would need to be remembered before everything as a mom to her two youngsters. Lard added that Gilson as soon as informed her being a mother or father was her “biggest accomplishment.” (Gilson shares her youngsters with ex-husband Lyle Landers.)
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“She was a enjoyable, loving and devoted mother. She beloved [her kids] greater than something on this world. She’d do something for them,” Lard mentioned.
Gilson and Duffey have been discovered useless inside their Tulsa, Oklahoma, dwelling on Thursday, July 23. Gilson was 43.
Regulation enforcement officers interviewed an unidentified member of the family on the scene who claimed Gilson and Duffey died by murder-suicide, per native reviews. A police investigation is ongoing.
Weeks earlier than her loss of life, Gilson publicly accused Duffey of pedophilia. Duffey didn’t handle the allegations previous to his loss of life. The pair separated earlier in the summertime.
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“Thanks for the military. Your ideas, prayers and present playing cards have meant greater than you recognize,” Gilson wrote by way of TikTok final month, addressing her divorce. “Whereas I’m grieving and attempting to course of the worst factor conceivable, I’m solely targeted on my youngsters and their well-being. Their security and psychological well being is my solely concern right now.”
She continued, “We’re not OK and I’m undecided I’ll ever be the identical, however God has been so devoted on this course of and I really feel his presence in all the things I do.”
Landers, for his half, alleged that he “begged” Gilson to depart her estranged husband.
“She had been caught in a relationship the place home abuse appeared ‘OK,’” Landers claimed in an interview with Folks printed on Sunday. “I had begged her for 5 years to get away from him. I had provided to assist her, in any means I might, to get away from him. However, he appeared to have some kind of management over her, and she or he couldn’t appear to get away.”
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Whereas Landers and Gilson divorced seven years in the past, he defined that the exes have been amicably coparenting their youngsters.
“It had been the very best factor on the planet for our youngsters, but in addition for us. We coparent in addition to anybody, and it has proven in our youngsters,” Landers mentioned. “She was a beautiful mom and would die for her youngsters. In actual fact, her attempting to guard youngsters is what finally led to her loss of life.”
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