US woman kills 4-yr-old, then shoots self dead after losing custody battle to ex-husband

A Texas mother allegedly killed her four-year-old daughter in an apparent murder-suicide, just hours after a court granted primary custody of the child to her father, who said she was “supposed to come home to him that evening”.Cibelle Savella, 35, was supposed to hand over her daughter, Vivian, to her ex-husband, Aaron Savella, on Tuesday evening. Instead, she fatally shot the child at their Houston home before turning the gun on herself, according to the Houston Police Department and family attorneys.Police were called to the residence at around 5:45pm and found Vivian dead and Cibelle with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on the third floor. She was taken to a hospital but died a day later, police said, the New York Post reported.In a statement released through his attorney Stefani Shapiro, Aaron's family said Vivian was supposed to return home to her father that evening.“Our family is devastated.