Murder-Suicide: Kinsley Prinsen, 2, Was Killed By Her Father During Mental Health Crisis

[Sugar Cookie]

A 2-year-old girl was shot and killed at a home in Minneapolis early Monday. Police said they believe the child was killed by her father, who then fatally shot himself.

They are investigating the case as a murder-suicide.

Police said the child’s mother was in the residence at the time but was not physically injured.

Minneapolis police: 2-year-old girl, father dead in apparent murder-suicide

Police said they believe the girl was killed by her father, who then fatally shot himself. They are investigating the case as a murder-suicide.

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A Minneapolis mother is sharing the unthinkable.

On Monday, the father of Trisha Prinsen’s 2-year-old daughter, Kinsley, killed the little girl during a mental crisis and then took his own life. Prinsen was home at the time.

“She was always happy,” Prinsen said. “As young as she was, she made a difference in a lot of people’s lives. She could cheer anyone up.”

Monday would be the last time she’d hold her baby girl, never imagining the girl’s father, Scott, would tragically end both their lives.

“When her daughter went to hug him, he took her life,” said Lisa Clemons with A Mother’s Love Initiative.

“I was held hostage in my own house with her,” Prinsen said. “I’ll never be able to take away the images of
losing her and watching him do that in front of me.”

Prinsen says Scott and she were together for seven years and had three kids — she says his mental health declined after experiencing several losses.

“This wasn’t him at all. “I couldn’t understand where his thinking had gone, he had never been like this before,” said Prinsen.

Prinsen hopes those struggling seek help.

“It’s going to take me a while to forgive him, but I still love him,” Prinsen added. “It was his mental health, and I told him that he needed therapy.”

Mother bringing awareness to mental health after losing daughter in suspected murder-suicide

On Monday, the father of Trisha Prinsen's 2-year-old daughter killed the little girl during a mental crisis and then took his own life.

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“I’m the mother of my beautiful angel, Kinsley Prinsen, who was fatally shot and killed by her father, and then he killed himself in front of me,” Trisha Ann Prinsen posted on an online fundraising page she started to help with funeral and other expenses. “I’m trying to deal with this one minute at a time, grieving the loss of my beautiful 2-year-old daughter and the loss of my significant other.”

Woman ‘grieving the loss’ of toddler daughter and partner to murder-suicide in Twin Cities home

Police chief says, “This is an unimaginable, heartbreaking tragedy.”

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[Sugar Cookie]

Kinsley Prinsen

 

[Aedia]

Okay, I'm gonna say it....
I can understand her saying she can separate the mental illness from the man and still loves him, but hasn't forgiven him (at least for now). What I do not understand is why she watched him deteriorate and did nothing but suggest therapy. Apparently, not even push him?? An ultimatum?? Just a nice suggestion?! Didn't leave?
I get it's hard. But I think of my sister, who in late '20 called my mom and told her that it was an emergency that she and her two kids had to come live with us, like right then. She said they'd sleep in the garage on blankets if they had to. Why? Because her husband was having a mental breakdown. She had given him a timeline on starting therapy and while it hadn't passed yet, he said something that concerned her to no end. He came up to her and implied very heavily that he thought the kids might be poisoning him. She knew he had guns. She knew he was stressed and had also, funny enough with this story, had just faced some major losses plus found out his mother had cancer she wasn't going to treat.
So she grabbed her kids and didn't look back.
I'm not blaming her for his actions. But you have to put your kids first! It isn't fun to leave someone you love when they're struggling. You feel like you should stick out. It is not fun to leave the comfort of a home to go who knows where. But when children are involved, you can't risk their lives.

 

[BuffettGirl]

That poor woman, it's unimaginable...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Okay, I'm gonna say it....
I can understand her saying she can separate the mental illness from the man and still loves him, but hasn't forgiven him (at least for now). What I do not understand is why she watched him deteriorate and did nothing but suggest therapy. Apparently, not even push him?? An ultimatum?? Just a nice suggestion?! Didn't leave?
I get it's hard. But I think of my sister, who in late '20 called my mom and told her that it was an emergency that she and her two kids had to come live with us, like right then. She said they'd sleep in the garage on blankets if they had to. Why? Because her husband was having a mental breakdown. She had given him a timeline on starting therapy and while it hadn't passed yet, he said something that concerned her to no end. He came up to her and implied very heavily that he thought the kids might be poisoning him. She knew he had guns. She knew he was stressed and had also, funny enough with this story, had just faced some major losses plus found out his mother had cancer she wasn't going to treat.
So she grabbed her kids and didn't look back.
I'm not blaming her for his actions. But you have to put your kids first! It isn't fun to leave someone you love when they're struggling. You feel like you should stick out. It is not fun to leave the comfort of a home to go who knows where. But when children are involved, you can't risk their lives.

Someone posted on social media that it was during a visitation - do not know how true or the background - we may actually never truly know what led him to taking the child's life.

There were two other children so was there a reason he took this child's life as opposed to the one of the other two children.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

I have a mental health crisis every damn day of my life and I cannot imagine taking the life of a child. It’s not in me.

 

[Aedia]

Someone posted on social media that it was during a visitation - do not know how true or the background - we may actually never truly know what led him to taking the child's life.

There were two other children so was there a reason he took this child's life as opposed to the one of the other two children.

If that's true, than I feel even worse for the mother. That honestly would add up with the whole "shot her when she came to hug him" thing. I hope it was instantaneous death and the poor child didn't suffer. I can't imagine going to hug my dad and having him hurt me and especially if it was during a visit - excited to see him and running up all happy. Just awful.

That's what I've thought as well! Usually, when there is a mental break murder suicide, they kill all the kids. Kinda weird.

 

[lastingmemoriesreborns]

on the go fund me the mother states the following:

• June 12th, 2025by Trisha Prinsen, Organizer
  UPDATE: So Hennepin County Child Protection Services has decided they want to investigate and need to have an interview with me which comes with possible charges. Some of this money will be used to obtain an attorney before I have to meet with them.

 

[Kleng]

Can someone say "meth induced psychosis"?