The festive period is usually known for flying by quickly when you’re having fun creating lifelong memories with your family. For a family in Florida, however, that couldn’t be further from their unfortunate reality when Jason Kenney, 47, decided to kill his wife and stepdaughter over a petty squabble for the remote during Monday Night Football.
On Dec. 23, the San Francisco 49ers took on the Indianapolis Colts in an away game. It was standard fare — Brock Purdy had yet another good game and the 49ers won resoundingly. So that was not the headline of the night. Jason is reportedly a fan of the 49ers, with multiple pictures of him online proudly wearing their team jersey, but he was drinking a little too much to be able to fully enjoy the game.
Reportedly, Jason’s wife Crystal Kenney had enough of the rowdy game and switched it off. People have turned to gun violence for small reasons, but nothing quite like this. Apparently, this one action from his wife incited Jason to turn violent. In a desperate attempt to extinguish the situation, Crystal even told their 12-year-old son to call 911.
According to the New York Post, it was not safe enough for the boy to call the police in their household, so he ran to a neighbor’s house in an attempt to save his family. From the next house, the boy was able to hear shots fired. When police eventually arrived, they found Crystal dead on the spot and their daughter injured with one bullet to the face and another to the shoulder. Jason, at that time, had escaped from the scene.
The daughter was able to survive thanks to rushed assistance and, through the pain, was able to give a small quip about what happened on that horrible, fateful night. She said, “I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, and he shot me anyway.” The couple had another 1-year-old daughter who was thankfully not hurt in all the madness. Neither was the 12-year-old boy. Gun violence doesn’t always spare the young, so at the very least that was a consolation here.
Kenney dealt with his actions by calling his sister in upstate New York to tell her that he did something bad and that she would likely never hear from him again. Kenney then drove up to his father’s house and shot himself before the police could arrest him. Football is supposed to be about bringing families together, not tearing them apart.
Online, the conversation was more about the photo that was chosen to report the story. With the recurring reference of Abbott Elementary star Zack Fox’s tweet, which showed that the media picks and chooses which suspect to portray in a sinister way depending on their race.
Like clockwork pic.twitter.com/8sZl8mwP0k
— HARD FACTOR (@HardFactorNews) December 26, 2025
This never gets old
— Venom (@AnkitSi70755453) December 26, 2025pic.twitter.com/tMVlANG4hL
In fact, in the passing days the focus shifted more on the pictures used than the actual horrible crime at hand. But in the case of murder-suicides, there is simply no mugshot to be shown — and as unsatisfactory as it may be to portray them as a big happy family, sometimes the details just have to be enough because that’s what matters the most.
