MESA - Mesa Police say they are investigating after what appears to be a murder-suicide at a children's hospital. 
 
 Staff reportedly found a 27-year-old mother and her 5-year-old son inside the child's room at Banner Desert Children's Hospital after 2 a.m. Saturday. 
 
 Police identified the boy as Helious Griffith, and his mother as Lola T. Griffith, also known as "Tami". 
 
 Police believe the mother took her son's life and then took her own life. The mother's injuries appear to be from a gunshot wound while the child was found with a ligature around his neck. 
 
 Staff was able to cut the ligature from his neck and tried to perform life-saving measures, but were not successful. 
 
 Officials are still handling this case as a murder suicide, and a motive has not yet been determined at this time. 
 
 Officials say the boy had been at the hospital for about a week. 
 
 A You Caring post titled "Mobility for the Immobile" was posted online in October by an organizer by the name of "Lola Griffith" in search of a new vehicle to help the woman transport her wheelchair bound grandfather and her child. 
 
 She said online that she was a single mother of a special needs boy who was turning 6 years old on Christmas Eve. The post also said the boy had dystonic cerebral palsy and had sound, odor and touch sensitivity as well as showing "extreme anxiety" when he saw a doctor or someone wearing scrubs or a lab coat. 
 
 The boy was wheelchair bound and was unable to sit up, crawl or walk on his own. The post says the child was diagnosed at age 1. 
 
 The post had only garnered $5 in the woman's search to afford a new vehicle in the amount of $1,800. 
 
 "We can't progress any further alone," the post reads. "I hope you who's reading this, can help us." 
 
 The mother was the child's legal guardian and the family had reportedly been involved with the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Police say the boy's mother met with DCS about two days ago. 
 
 Standard hospital procedure requires room checks every two hours, police say. The mother and son were checked on around midnight and again around 2 a.m. when they were found dead. 
 
 No one else in the hospital was threatened or harmed. 
 
 Police say a Mesa police officer is assigned to the hospital and other security staff members are also always on-site. 
 
 Banner Health says they cannot comment due to the nature of the investigation, but released a statement later Saturday morning addressing the incident. It reads, in part: 
 
 The safety of our patients, associates and visitors is paramount to us and is our top priority at this time. At no time were others impacted by this incident and we remain vigil in the safety of all we’re treating and seeing at Cardon Children’s Medical Center. 
 
 Banner Health does have a policy in place that prohibits firearms and weapons at all of our hospitals, health centers, and clinics that’s posted at our entry ways. 
 
 Our thoughts are with the family and their loss at this time. 
 
 This story is developing. Stay with ABC15 for updates. ||||| Police believe a mother killed her 5-year-old son before committing suicide early Saturday inside a Mesa, Arizona, hospital where the child was being treated. 
 
 The bodies of Lola Griffith, 27, and her son, Helious, were discovered in his room by hospital staff at Cardon Children's Medical Center at 2 a.m. local time, Mesa Police Department Det. Steve Berry told NBC News. 
 
 Mesa police are investigating the incident as a murder-suicide, Berry said. "We don't have any reason to believe that it is not," he added. 
 
 Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa, Az. KPNX 
 
 Nurses who check on patients every two hours discovered Griffith with a fatal gunshot wound, Berry said. Police were not disclosing what killed 5-year-old Helious. 
 
 Berry said nurses reported that the mother and son were fine at midnight. 
 
 Berry wouldn't say what the 5-year-old was being treated for, citing patient privacy. 
 
 He said no one else in the hospital was affected by the violence. "Everything was kind of confined to that one room," he said. 
 
 Banner Health, which owns Cardon Children's Medical Center, said in a statement that each of their health care centers have a policy that prohibits weapons of any kind. 
 
 "The safety of our patients, associates and visitors is paramount to us and is our top priority," the statement said. "Our thoughts are with the family and their loss at this time." ||||| This page has been updated to Final Expenses for Tami and Helious Griffith. The original post remains below. 
 
 
 
 
 
 My name is Lola Griffith but I go by "Tami". I'm in need of help since our ONLY vehicle broke down and needs replacing. I normally help my community with food and diapers or whatever I can when they come and ask but this time, I'm afraid, I need the help. But no one here in my community can lend a hand. So I'm reaching out to anybody and everybody hoping to find those few that would love to help. I'm a single mother of a special needs little boy whom will be turning 6 this Christmas eve 2015. My son's name is Helious (like the Greek Sun God Helios) and he has Cerebral Palsy with Dystonia, he has sensitivities to audio, odor, and touch. He also suffers from separation anxiety when I'm out of his line of sight where he cries and can not self calm. He has been traumatized by doctors where now he expresses extreme anxiety and down right terror when he smells rubbing alcohol and/or see someone in scrubs or lab coat. Our small family takes care of my grandparents as well, whom live in a senor independent living home. We transport my grandparents to their doctor appointments (sometimes weekly), set up his medication every week and grocery shopping (they no longer drive due to their own disabilities). My grandfather is wheelchair bound, just like my son. He is also a Vietnam Vet with disabilities regarding his sight, memory, hearing as well as suffers from PSTD (the weekly visits with his great grandson helps with his PSTD). He is also on oxygen, which I make sure is filled and working, not counting keeping my grandmothers diabetic medications filled as well. Sadly though, that leads me to our need of help. Our ONLY transportation has blown it's engine. When my son was diagnosed at age 1, his doctor declared him a "care for lifetime" case (polite way of saying he will need help in all aspects of his life, if not fully dependent) and is non-ambulatory (unable to sit-up independently, walk, or crawl). The cheapest vehicle that I can find on craigslist (that can be converted by the VA for a wheelchair lift) is $1500 which I do not have the funds for that's not counting the 30cents per dollar removed by this site(that's why the amount is $1800 to make sure we can get the actually $1500). If you can't make a donation, that's okay but PLEASE at least help me get the word out that we need help. We can't progress any further alone. I hope you who's reading this, can help us. If you're local, we have no problem meeting you in person but we can't go to you because of the very obvious reason.... our vehicle is down and out and we are in desperate need of a replacement. Please have a beautiful day and stay safe.
– A mother and her 5-year-old son were found dead Saturday in the boy's hospital room, and authorities in Arizona are treating their deaths as a murder-suicide, reports NBC News. "We don't have any reason to believe that it is not," says a Mesa police rep. Dead is 27-year-old Lola Griffith, of a gunshot wound that police believe was self-inflicted and came after she killed son Helious. Officials aren't saying what killed Helious, nor what he was being treated for at Cardon Children's Medical Center. In a YouCaring post, however, Griffith said her son suffered dystonic cerebral palsy; she sought $1,800 for the purchase of a used van, reports ABC News. As of this writing, $95 had been donated. ABC notes that Griffith had met with the state Department of Child Safety just days before the deaths.