The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the circumstances leading up to a murder-suicide that left a 44-year-old mother and her two children, a 14-year-old boy and 11-year-old girl, dead Thursday in Lakewood Ranch.
Deputies responded around 8:30 p.m. to a residence in the 8200 block of Pavia Way — in the Lake Club, an upscale gated community whose residents once included Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger — to conduct a welfare check at the request of the children’s father, who was out of the country in South America.
When deputies arrived, officials said they encountered what appeared to be a violent murder scene. Inside the home, they found the boy and girl dead in separate rooms, each showing evidence of what investigators described as “homicidal violence.”…