Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 7:20 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 7:25 a.m.
JUPITER, Fla. | Police in South Florida say a woman fired at drivers on Interstate 95 and bludgeoned her grandmother to death after trying to check into a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
Amy Kern of St. Marys, Ga., is being held on two first-degree murder charges.
Kern told investigators that a state-run psychiatric hospital in Savannah, Ga., wouldn't admit her early Saturday. She then drove to South Florida.
Police say Kern intended to kill her father, but he wasn't home. She allegedly stole a gun from his house and fired at other drivers on her way to an aunt's home in Palm Beach Gardens.
According to police, Kern shot her aunt's boyfriend before driving to Jupiter and beating her grandmother to death with a tire iron.
Kern's fiance says the 30-year-old mother of an infant "made every attempt she could to get help."
