A 'young child' allegedly discovered a loaded and unsecured shotgun in his home and used it to kill his 5-year-old and 8-year-old siblings.
A "young child" allegedly discovered a loaded and unsecured shotgun in his home and used it to kill his 5-year-old and 8-year-old siblings. Pictured: The area in Brookville, Kansas where the shooting took place.
BROOKEVILLE, Kan. - A young child allegedly discovered a loaded and unsecured shotgun in his home and used it to kill his 5-year-old and 8-year-old siblings.from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, officers were dispatched to a home at around 3:15 p.m. on March 28 after receiving a report of a shooting with two injured children. Upon arriving to the house, police found a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy suffering from severe gunshot wounds.
The 5-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene, and the 8-year-old succumbed to his injuries in the hospital on April 3. Authorities soon determined that a young child in the home "located a loaded, unsecured shotgun and shot and killed two siblings.
" The age of the child was not released. Following the investigation, 37-year-old Aaron French and 28-year-old Makayla French, the father and mother of the victims, were arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated endangering a child and two counts of aggravated endangering a child.
A Vinton County judge signed off on a gag order Tuesday, blocking anyone involved in the case of 16 children rescued from a Hamden home from speaking publicly aDetectives from the Columbus Division of Police are asking for the public's help to identify the women suspected in an assault in the Short North on the morningThree people are injured after a Wednesday morning crash involving two cars on Interstate 670 westbound near mile marker 6.
The crash happened just before 9 a.m.Court records obtained by ABC6 Investigates reveal that years before the Vinton County child endangering case came to light, Gallia County schools went to courtA "young child" allegedly discovered a loaded and unsecured shotgun in his home and used it to kill his 5-year-old and 8-year-old siblings.
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