[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Oof. This is so sad. Over the weekend, a mother and daughter were found dead in a Las Vegas hotel in an apparent murder-suicide. According to reports, 38-year-old Tawnia McGeehan and her 11-year-old daughter Addi Smith traveled from Utah to Las Vegas for a cheer competition. Hotel staff found them dead in their hotel room on February 14 at the Rio Hotel & Casino. Police believe Tawnia shot her daughter before turning the gun on herself. Awful, awful, awful. Nothing justifies this insane act. Related: Trump Says It's 'A Very Sad Thing' Andrew Got Arrested Amid Epstein Files Fallout Now, Tawnia's mother Connie McGeehan is opening up even more about what she believes happened. Speaking to the New York Post on Tuesday, Connie said Tawnia was allegedly having problems with "one or two" other mothers on Addi's Utah Xtreme Cheer team. Connie claimed: "There's one or two ladies that she never got along with, and it got really bad a month ago." Oh, no. The cheer moms were allegedly even sending "mean stuff" to Tawnia: "In the last comp they had, another girl got dropped and some of the moms were saying it was because of Addi. They were texting [Tawnia] mean stuff and blaming Addi. Cheer was her and Addi's life. I think something happened the day before [they died] that made her spiral." Oof. Tawnia had "struggled with depression her whole life" but Connie thought she was "turning a corner" after ending a 9-year custody battle for Addie with her ex-husband, Brad Smith, in 2024. Per court docs viewed by KUTV, Addi's parents divorced in 2017. In December 2020, her father was granted sole custody on a temporary basis, with a judge citing McGeehan's parental alienation as a reason for this. The judge also claimed she had committed domestic abuse in front of her daughter. She was required to have a third party around during her time with Addi. But in 2024, a judge modified the arrangement, awarding them joint legal and physical custody. It wasn't immediately clear why the change was made. A source close to UXC confirmed to The Post that there'd been a recent "confrontation" between Tawnia and another mother in the team waiting room. However, the team's owner Kory Uyetake told the outlet that while he was aware there had been "comments back and forth" between Tawnia and some of the other moms, everything seemed normal on Saturday after traveling to the competition. He added that Addi was in her first season with the team and "loved it," noting she was "the first [to practice] every time." He said: "She was a beautiful girl and she didn't deserve this." Tawnia and Addi had been living with Connie and other family members for a while. Connie reflected on her granddaughter: "Addi loved her gymnastics, she loved her friends, she always seemed happy no matter what." Tawnia also seemed in good spirits when they left for the competition and had even made gifts for the team members, bought new clothes for the trip, and shared happy pictures of "Addi doing backflips" in the hotel room at 5 a.m. on Sunday. But there was one photo in the mix that concerned Connie, who said through tears: "They just looked like they were happy but then there was one pic of Addi and Tawnia together and I thought something doesn't look like right. The look was off, something had happened. Something was off." As mentioned, the mother and daughter were discovered on Sunday after they failed to appear at the cheer competition. Family members requested a welfare check, which police conducted at about 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, but when nobody answered the door, they left. Hotel security returned later after more requests to check the room, and at around 2:30 p.m., they discovered the deaths. Apparently, a note was found with Tawnia, but Connie claims police have not shared it with her. She claimed: "We had no idea [Tawnia] was contemplating this. ... I thought she was doing OK, she'd been having some of the cheer moms over and making things with the kids." The family was also unaware that Tawnia owned a gun or that she brought it with her on the trip, only learning afterward that "she bought it over a year ago." Homicide detectives are still investigating the case. Our thoughts go out to this family mourning this absolute tragedy. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, help is available. Consider contacting the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available. Consider calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or text START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/. [Image via Tawnia McGeehan/Facebook] The post Cheer Mom Who Killed 11-Year-Old Daughter In Murder-Suicide Was Allegedly Being Sent 'Mean' Messages From Other Moms appeared first on Perez Hilton.