On December 19th, 2007, 33-year-old first time mom Jenny Gibbs Bankston took her 7-week-old baby boy, Graham, to a gun store around noon. There, she purchased a gun, telling the salesman it was for home protection. Having never used a gun before, she also asked him to load it—with just two bullets.
Then, Jenny went home, and according to her brother Randy’s interview in the documentary film When the Bough Breaks, she cooked dinner for her husband, who was not yet home. Then she took her newborn baby Graham and her new gun into the backyard and used those two bullets. One for him, one for her. They were both killed in an instant.
