Heartbreaking reason mom jumped off Niagara Falls with her two kids – as her family denies vicious rumor

It is alleged that a mother who committed murder-suicide by jumping to her death from Niagara Falls with her two children was afflicted with postpartum depression.

Chianti Means, 33, pushed her two children, Roman Rossman, 9, and Mecca Means, 4, off the ledge and leaped after them when they crossed the guardrail on Luna Island.

Means’ social media statements regarding her breakup with her daughter’s father, in which she alluded to her sorrow, regret, and pain, have been the source of rumors concerning the deaths on October 28.

Bierra Hamilton, her cousin, now claims that the young mother had postpartum depression.

“Be aware that postpartum depression is a real condition that requires treatment,” Hamilton told the New York Post. She didn’t die for a man. My relative was battling depression by herself in silence.

 

In response to people circulating misleading information about the issue, Hamilton took to Facebook to defend her beloved relative, also known as Diamond Scott.

“Diamond Scott did not end her life over no man,” she wrote. Just to be clear. There is no proof of that.

“Y’all are loud and incorrect.”

The’real motive’ behind Means’ conduct was unknown to Hamilton’s family, she posted on Facebook prior to her Saturday interview with the Post.

The incident has left other friends and family in shock.

Niesha Eukeya remarked, “You really never know what anybody is going through….RIP.”

“I can’t even bear to write a post about her and share memories,” Mitch Molina remarked.

“I can’t even cope with the emotions I am experiencing, and I am literally sick to my stomach.” Please know that my children and I adore her and her kids.

Hamilton said to the Post, “My cousin had a beautiful soul.” She had a deep affection for her family and kids. I never remembered her negatively. She was very wise and full of life. We shall really miss her and her children.

According to officials, the plunge was “intentional.”

Roman went over the railing first, followed by Mecca and Means at approximately 9 p.m., according to State Park Police’s analysis of the security tape that documented the sequence of events.

According to State Police Public Information Officer Trooper James O’Callaghan, the mother did not seem to be pursuing her children when they fell to their deaths.

According to her LinkedIn page, Means was a domestic violence counselor who lived in Niagara Falls with her family.

To honor the premature deaths, family members held a candlelight tribute on Friday.

Police have yet to locate the bodies of Means, Roman, and Mecca, and they might never do so.

Many people who have accidentally fallen in or jumped to their deaths at Niagara Falls have never been retrieved from the bottom of the cascade, which rages with 3,610 tons of water every second.

Its fierce currents push some people far from the falls; years later, a man who plummeted to his death was found on Lake Ontario, 140 miles away.