Southwest
Texas dad reveals chilling text he received moments before wife shot 3-year-old son
A bereaved Texas father, whose wife shot their 3-year-old, then herself amid a bitter custody battle after sending a text saying “say goodbye to your son,” said that the family court system failed the toddler.
The bodies of Savannah Kriger, 32, and 3-year-old Kaiden were found in a drainage ditch with gunshot wounds to their heads at San Antonio’s Tom Slick Park on March 19, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.
At 3:19 p.m. that day, 19 hours before they were found, Savannah sent a chilling text to her husband, who had filed for divorce on March 7, according to court records.
“Say goodbye to your son,” she wrote, per screenshots provided to Fox News Digital by father Brian Kriger.
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Kaiden Kriger, 3, was shot dead in a murder-suicide by his mother, Savannah Kriger, on March 18. His father, Brian Kriger, left, shared the harrowing text messages and calls he received in the hours before their bodies were recovered. (Brian Kriger)
“She sent the message on the tail end of a wire transferring all the money out of [our] joint account,” Kriger said on Friday. “I assumed she was running with him – that’s what prompted my lawyer to initiate the order for writ to make her appear in court the next day.”
About two hours earlier, per a timeline based on GPS records released by the department, the mother let herself into her Kriger’s house and destroyed property inside. Meanwhile, the department said, phone tracking showed that the unwitting father was still at work.
An hour later, after surveillance footage showed Savannah picking the 3-year-old up from daycare, she called Kriger via FaceTime call he recorded and later shared with police.
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Pictured are Savannah Kriger’s final texts to her son’s father before she shot Kaiden and herself on March 18. (Brian Kriger)
“You don’t have anything to go home to now, you really don’t,” she said. “You won’t have anything at all at the end of the day.”
“You left us for a piece of a–… Daddy left us for some woman he met on the internet… explain to your son why you’re not here,” she said, the toddler in the back seat.
When he asked why she vandalized objects in his home, Savannah replied that he “cared more about [his] material possessions than his son.”
Kriger called police and raced home to find that “every article of clothing” he owned had been cut, he said. Officers arrived at the home at 3:37 p.m.
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“What was going through my head was that I needed to get my son out of her custody as quickly as possible because of her erratic behavior after seeing the damages,” Kriger told Fox News Digital. “The only thing that [the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office] did was a welfare check to her residence, which was stupid because I told them that she wasn’t there, and she had my son and intentions to take everything from me.”
Officers called a relative to let them into the Dover Den home, where their findings “made them pause,” Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a press conference.
Savannah had laid out wedding dresses and wedding portraits displayed on the bed pierced by two gunshots. A shell casing found in the house matched shell casings later found near the mother and son’s bodies in the park, the department said.
The bereaved father is pictured with his 3-year-old son. (Brian Kriger)
The next morning, an Amber Alert was issued for the toddler, but by that time, based on phone records, the department believed the woman and child were already dead.
After an unsuccessful attempt to FaceTime her husband, a 21-second video found on Savannah’s phone, recorded at 3:21 p.m., appears to show the woman and child in the drainage ditch. She instructs the child to “say goodbye to [his] daddy,” which he does, per the department. She kisses the child and apologizes that his father “can’t be there with [him].”
Savannah’s phone records show that she looked up children’s cartoons at 3:29 p.m. – the department has inferred that these were the child’s final moments, Fox San Antonio reported.
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Brian Kriger, who asked that Fox News Digital not post photos of Savannah, said that his son “lit up a room” and had “so many friends and family that loved him.” (Brian Kriger)
Investigators found Savannah’s abandoned white 2023 Lincoln Aviator at the park off State Highway 151 East, but they did not find their bodies until the next day.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled the child’s death a homicide on Friday, KENS5 reported.
Kriger told Fox News Digital that his son was a “sweet and loving person” who “lit up the room whenever he was around.”
“He had so many friends and family that loved and adored him and I miss him so much,” he said. “I thought he was so funny and he was so smart for his age. He was going to be something special, he had so much life ahead of him.”
Savannah had a restraining order against her husband at the time of the murder-suicide, per Bexar County Court records. The couple were scheduled to meet in family court days afterward.
Brian Kriger filed for divorce on March 7, days before Kaiden and Savannah were found dead. The divorcing couple were scheduled to meet in family court later that week – a temporary restraining order that prohibited Brian from seeing his son in person, but allowed him to speak to the toddler via phone and FaceTime, had been issued. (Brian Kriger)
“There definitely needs to be more consideration for fathers in the family court system,” Kriger told Fox News Digital. “Instead of always taking the mother’s side and believing everything they say.”
“Obviously she had a motive to all her false police reports and allegations of domestic violence to take my son away from me, which proved to be successful because the court system is biased to mothers. But obviously, mothers are capable of doing the worst possible thing to get back at the fathers, which is not fair.”
The father has not been criminally charged, the sheriff’s office and local police department told Fox News Digital. However, the last time Kriger saw his son, he said, was on March 7, after Savannah claimed he threatened her life in family court after he filed for divorce.
“We exchanged at the police station,” Kriger said. “The last time my son saw me [in person was] while I was crying that I didn’t want to give him up.”
Kriger said that Savannah “hid her mental health problems from everyone, including her closest family members, for years.”
“She never sought help for her trauma and never showed signs that there was anything wrong until it was too late,” Kriger claimed.
Kaiden Kriger is pictured in an undated Facebook photo. (Sav San on Facebook)
The bereaved father also claims that the judge overseeing their custody dispute was aware that she “had thoughts about suicide two times prior to [his] filing for divorce.”
“The justice system failed my son,” Kriger said. “I do feel like the judge who ordered me to surrender Kaiden did not have his safety in mind.”
Fox News Digital could not reach the attorney representing Savannah in her custody dispute at press time.
“We will never know the complete picture,” Marta Prada Pelaez, the CEO of Family Violence Prevention Services, told KENS5. “We only know of the level of despair that this mother must have had… The community’s attention should now go to those members of the family who are left with no real answers.”
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L.A. Jewish institution among targets of foiled terrorist attack, U.S. officials say
A Jewish institution in Los Angeles was among the locations targeted in a recently foiled terrorism plot, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton announced this week.
The thwarted terrorist attacks were the result of the recent arrest of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national and senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, U.S. officials said.
“Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a commander for the terrorist organization, Kata’ib Hizballah, faces serious charges for his role in numerous attacks against U.S. interests across the globe, including his efforts to kill on U.S. soil,” Clayton said. “As alleged, for years, Al-Saadi committed himself to furthering the terrorist goals of Kata’ib Hizballah and the IRGC, two terrorist organizations dedicated to harming the United States and its allies.”
Al-Saadi recently attempted to carry out attacks in the U.S., officials said, including attacks at Jewish cultural places of interest in New York, Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Ariz.
“Al-Saadi attempted to disrupt American society through intimidation and violence,” a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office reads. “… Those who engage in or support terrorism against Americans and on U.S. soil should take note: the whole of the federal government is committed to dismantling terrorist organizations and bringing their members to justice.”
In a three-month period, Al-Saadi allegedly directed 18 terrorist attacks throughout Europe, including bombings, arson, and assaults targeting American citizens and points of interest. Prior to his arrest, national security officials say he was planning similar attacks on U.S. soil. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said that Al-Saadi “presented a serious threat to our national security.”
The European attacks included the bombing of the Bank of New York Mellon, an American bank, in Amsterdam on March 15. On April 29, two Jewish men, one of whom was a dual U.S.-British citizen, were stabbed and seriously injured in London.
In 2020, Al-Saadi took to social media, calling for others to attack and kill Americans in retribution for the deaths of Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, U.S. officials said. In more recent months, Al-Saadi allegedly used social media to encourage the killing of Americans and Jews to further the terrorist goals of Kata’ib Hizballah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“In or about February 2026, for example, AL-SAADI posted on one of his social media accounts a message in Arabic, which read in part, ‘Do not abandon the blood of your Imam of the time, oh Shiites of Iraq. Kill everyone who supports America and Israel. Do not leave any of them remaining. Civil and military targets, as well as voices of discord, kill them everywhere.’” U.S. officials said.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch confirmed that one of the U.S. targets was a Manhattan synagogue. On April 3, Al-Saadi allegedly spoke to an undercover law enforcement officer whom Al-Saadi believed could carry out attacks in the U.S. That same day, Al-Saadi allegedly texted the undercover officers photographs and maps showing the exact location of a prominent Jewish synagogue in New York City.
Officials have not said what specific locations in L.A. and Arizona were targeted by the terrorist group.
Al-Saadi now faces numerous charges for these crimes in U.S. court. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
The case is under investigation by the FBI’s New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is comprised of investigators and analysts from the FBI, the NYPD, the FBI Washington Field Office, Counterterrorism Division, and more than 50 other federal, state, and local agencies. Investigators also received help from the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section, the Office of International Affairs of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
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