Minnesota Tragedy: Shocking Texts Foretell Nightmare Before Fatal Stabbing

New texts reveal a broken marriage between a Minnesota couple, just minutes before the husband killed his wife and young daughter and then took his own life in a shocking murder-suicide Wednesday.

Nathan Brown, 41, stabbed his wife, Kristen Brown, 41, and his daughter, Evie, 7, to death with a screwdriver as a parent — who witnessed the heinous act — was dropping off their child at the family’s in-home daycare in Hopkins, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. 

Kristen Brown texted a friend around 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday that things “were crazy” with her marriage and that she planned to shut down her Brown Bear Childcare business on Aug. 27, according to the Daily Mail.