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I\u2019ve watched it now. She was talking about coming to visit me here and coming to Seattle to watch \u2018The Nutcracker\u2019 with her mom and her daughter and me and my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later she got a frantic phone call from Megan\u2019s panicked husband, Adam Ghekiere.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7608\">Naked DoorDash driver caught on camera disturbs Texas family: \u2018Vulgar and completely unacceptable\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Follow the latest news on the tragic massacre of a family in Montana:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Montana gunman who massacred 8 family members ID\u2019d as possible motive revealed: \u2018Many red flags\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mom of two children who were among 8 family members killed in Montana house massacre speaks out about \u2018honoring\u2019 slain kids<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>12-year-old girl killed in Montana massacre was \u2018hero\u2019 who called 911 to try to save family<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Unbelievable\u2019 belongings recovered after gunman kills his 8 family members before setting Montana home on fire<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe called me when he found out the house was on fire to tell me that they were all in the house and he wasn\u2019t sure if anyone was okay,\u201d Garland said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI immediately called her. Her phone went to voicemail. Her mom\u2019s phone went to voicemail. And then a couple of hours later, he told me what happened, that they were all gone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops still have not released an official motive for Sunday\u2019s mass murder, in which Megan, her two children, Chloe, 7, and Owen, 13, and her stepchildren Charlotte, 12, and Landon Ghekiere, 15, were killed, along with her parents, Barbara, 72, and Dana Smith, 73, and grandma, Evelyn Smith, 92.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7606\">Treasury is 100% right to crack down on activists masquerading as charities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Ireland-Ghekiere &#8212; killed by her brother along with her seven relatives was making plans for an upcoming Christmas visit with her best friend hours before the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Wonderful&#039; 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