A heartbroken mother from Jacksonville, Florida, is grappling with an unimaginable tragedy after her 4-year-old twins suffocated in a wooden toy chest.
Sadie Myers, the bereaved mother, shared her anguish in a Facebook post, stating, "Not many will know the pain of losing two children at the same time and losing them in a way that makes no sense, but I have to believe that something in this universe chose them specifically. Maybe because their souls were too perfect for this world."
On August 26, Myers discovered her lifeless twins, Aurora and Kellan Starr, in their room. The previous night, while Myers was at work, her husband, Don Starr, had put their older boys and the twins to bed. Upon her return, she checked on her sleeping children, had dinner, and retired for the night.
In her post, Myers explained that the twins often woke up during the night to play in their room. "They usually fall asleep in some weird place in their room with toys left everywhere," she wrote. However, on this fateful night, the twins chose to sleep in the cedar toy chest filled with their stuffed animals.
"They pulled out all but a couple of stuffed animals," Myers wrote. "I guess they left some to keep it comfy in there, then they laid inside. Im assuming [they] said good night kell kell and 'night night sissy.' Sometime during their sleep one of them must have moved or kicked during a dream, and it caused the lid of this old wooden cedar chest to close."
The following morning, when Don Starr went to check on the twins, he couldn't find them. After a frantic search, one of their older brothers found them, seemingly asleep in the toy box. "Mommy I found them! They are so silly just sleeping in the toy box," he innocently told his mother.
Myers quickly realized something was amiss. "Within a few seconds I knew something wasnt right, but I also quickly realized it was already too late," she wrote. Unbeknownst to many parents, including Myers, most wooden chests are airtight and soundproof once closed. "As they slept, all snuggled up together, they slowly ran out of oxygen within a couple of hours and passed away," she wrote. "They never even knew it was happening."
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office responded to the incident around noon, according to an incident report obtained by Fox News Digital. The tragic deaths are currently under investigation.
The family, overwhelmed by grief, is trying to cope. Myers wrote, "Not many will ever know the feeling of trying not to spend EVERY WAKING SECOND crying in agony, so hard that it makes you fall over in pain, but we are trying soooo hard not to let our boys see us this way."
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