In Texas Mother shoots her 2 kids and kills herself after being denied food stamps.

A Texas mother-of-two who was distraught about being denied food stamps shot her children and killed herself after holding a 7-hour standoff with SWAT teams at a state welfare office.

After previously being denied food stamps, 38-year-old Rachelle Grimmer, with her 10-year-old son Timothy and 12-year-old daughter Ramie in tow, walked into a Laredo, Texas Department of Health and Human Services building late Monday afternoon demanding to speak to a new caseworker, and not the one whom she had worked with before.

Shortly after, Grimmer was taken to a private room to discuss the case, and that’s where she brandished a handgun, which is when the standoff began.

For the next several hours, police negotiators tried to persuade Grimmer over the phone to bring her children out safely, but she refused, and kept hanging up on them as she complained about how the state and federal government agencies weren’t helping her feed her family.

After about 3 hours had passed, Grimmer let a supervisor go unharmed, but remained inside the office with her two children.

When Grimmer hung up the phone for the last time after nearly 7 hours, police heard three shots, and a SWAT team immediately entered the building, where they found the woman’s body in a pool of blood with her wounded children nearby.

She had shot both of the children before fatally pulling the trigger on herself.

Both of the children were reported to be in “very” critical condition and unconscious as of Wednesday and died in hospital.

Authorities told the Associated Press that Grimmer, who had recently moved from Ohio, was denied food stamps because she had left out some key information on her initial application, which was filed in July 2011, reported CBSNews.