Sheri Shermeyer’s last message to the world was that of an angry, lonely and desperate woman.
She was angry at her husband, a man she described as a drunk with empty promises: “You will never see your son again. You don’t deserve to have a son, to have a legacy. Why should you have your name carried on? You are a nasty man.”
She was lonely that her life isn’t what she hoped it would be: “I’m tired of being told the grass is greener somewhere else, tired of crying, tired of being threatened with divorce, tired of being physically ignored, tired of being emotionally abused, tired of not being able to eat or sleep, tired of the stress, tired of the headaches, tired of it all.”
And she was desperate, so much so that she talked about ending it all: “And even now, all I can think about is leaving this world. Putting a gun in my mouth and leaving. Which is what is going to happen.”
The lengthy message was posted to Shermeyer’s Facebook wall at 10:52 a.m. on Monday.
She and her 1-year-old son, John, were found dead about two hours later in a home in a small Pennsylvania borough.
Pennsylvania State Police arrived at the house in Shrewsbury Township in rural York County at about 1 p.m., according to a news release.
Police believe the 40-year-old mother, who was found in bed with a gunshot wound to the head, had suffocated her son before killing herself. Coroner Pam Gray told the York Daily Record that Shermeyer’s husband was not home at that time.
A Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson, who confirmed that the Facebook post was written under Shermeyer’s name, said a friend of hers saw it and called police.
York County public records show that Shermeyer, formerly Sheri Ann Griffin, married Tracy Alan Shermeyer, 56, in 2014. Records also show that she lived in North Carolina before moving to Pennsylvania.
It’s unclear at this time if there had been other warning signs before the Facebook post. Efforts to reach Tracy Shermeyer were unsuccessful.
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