Less than a half-hour before Katherine Moshiri fled her Jackson residence and ran into the lobby of the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's department, screaming that her husband had shot her, a Cape Girardeau judge faxed an order of protection against Mir Shahin Moshiri to the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office.

When police forcibly entered Moshiri's 333 W. Mary St. residence, they discovered the bodies of Mir Shahin Moshiri, 36, in the living room, and 4-year-old Madison L. Moshiri, both dead of gunshot wounds to the head. Mir Shahin Moshiri's wound appeared to be self inflicted, police say.

Katherine Moshiri, 35; a 16-year-old, Michael R. Jeffers; and a 2-year-old, Meghan Moshiri, remain hospitalized from injuries sustained from gunshot wounds.

Meghan Moshiri, found in an upstairs bedroom, was airlifted from the scene to a Cape Girardeau hospital and later to Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St. Louis, where she is listed in critical condition, according to the news release from the Jackson Police Department.

Jeffers, who police found in the basement of the house, also remains in critical condition from gunshot wounds he sustained. He underwent surgery at Saint Francis Medical Center Monday night.

Katherine Moshiri's condition is unknown at this time.

According to an order of protection Katherine Moshiri filed against her husband hours before police suspect he shot her and the three children, then took his own life, he threatened to kill her if she left him.

"We get 15 or 20 of these in a day," said Cape Girardeau County Associate Circuit Judge Peter Statler.

Statler said he granted the ex parte order because Katherine Moshiri was obviously concerned about her children being taken from the country.

"My thought is always to try to err on the side of the potential victim," he said.

Katherine Moshiri said in the statement that her husband unlawfully imprisoned her in their house on Sunday, and that she feared he would take their children back to Iran with him.

He had obtained numerous weapons that he was keeping in the house, including an Uzi with a 100-round clip, according to her statement.

The sheriff's office received the faxed order at 4:30 p.m., 25 minutes before Katherine Moshiri entered the lobby, bleeding from gunshot wounds to the head and shoulder.

Dispatchers were busy with a fatal car crash near Delta, Mo., and the order had not been served yet, said Chief Deputy David James.