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Texas Girl Charged With Killing Family

Dad survives predawn attack sparked by foiled romance, cops say

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(Newser) – A 16-year-old Texas girl and three friends allegedly killed her mother and two brothers and set the family home on fire because her parents objected to her boyfriend, the AP reports. The suspects face capital murder charges in yesterday's attack, which the girl's father survived. Shot five times, he crawled 300 yards to a neighbor's house for help.

“The parents were attempting to break the relationship up,” the Rains County sheriff said today. The daughter, the 19-year-old boyfriend, and friends aged 18 and 20 shot and stabbed their victims, who included the family's 8- and 13-year-old sons. The father is hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through charred remains of a rural Alba home on Saturday evening, March 1, 2008. A mother and two children were killed during a predawn attack on their remote East Texas ranch where police said another man...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through charred remains of a rural Alba home on Saturday evening, March 1, 2008. A mother and two children...   (Associated Press)
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through charred remains of a rural Alba home on Saturday evening, March 1, 2008. A mother and two children were killed at their remote East Texas ranch where police said another man was critically injured by...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through charred remains of a rural Alba home on Saturday evening, March 1, 2008. A mother and two children...   (Associated Press)
Rains County Sheriff David Traylor speaks at a press conference on Saturday, March 1, 2008, to announce the arrest of four people, including three high school students and one juvenile for the attack on a remote East Texas ranch where a mother and two children were killed. The four accused...
Rains County Sheriff David Traylor speaks at a press conference on Saturday, March 1, 2008, to announce the arrest of four people, including three high school students and one juvenile for the attack...   (Associated Press)
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through charred remains of a rural Alba home on Saturday evening, March 1, 2008. A mother and two children were killed during a predawn attack on their remote East Texas ranch where police said another man...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm investigators from Rains and Smith Counties, Texas shovel and pick through charred remains of a rural Alba home on Saturday evening, March 1, 2008. A mother and two children...   (Associated Press)
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More on the attack and the charges
Tyler (Texas) Morning Telegraph

More details of the crime
KLTV.com

Neighbors react to the murders
CNN

 
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