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A 10-year-old lad successful Oklahoma City is the sole subsister of gruesome murder-suicide involving his parents and 3 brothers. Police accidental the child's dada "hunted down" and killed the remainder of the family.
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A 10-year-old lad woke up to "carnage" successful his Oklahoma City home, with some his parents and 3 older brothers dead, according to police.
Authorities were called to an westside residence connected April 22 aft the kid dialed 911 and reported that "everyone wrong the location appeared to beryllium dead," Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department shared successful a property conference. Once wrong the home, Knight said officers recovered 5 radical who were "beyond saving" aft what appeared to beryllium an overnight murder-suicide.
"Make nary mistake astir it," helium continued, "what happened successful that residence was thing abbreviated of a massacre."
Upon further investigation, authorities determined the boy's 42-year-old dad Jonathon Candy had gotten into an altercation with his woman Lindsay Candy, 39, before shooting her aggregate times.
"At that point, helium systematically went done the location shooting and sidesplitting their children," Knight said. "Those children were hunted down and killed."
Dylan Candy, 18, Ethan Candy, 14, and Lucas Candy, 12, were fatally shot earlier Jonathon turned the weapon connected himself, according to Knight, who said the surviving kid told investigators that helium slept done the shootings.
The lad was uninjured successful the incidental and has present been placed successful the custody of relatives, per police.
"We don't cognize wherefore helium was near unharmed," Knight said. "That's the question everybody has. That's the question we have, too."
In the aftermath of tragedy, the extended Candy household released a connection saying that they are "shattered and confused."
"Jonathon was the 1 whose jokes and goofy cognition kept everyone smiling," they told FOX News. "Aside from these events, his children and woman were his full life."
The household added, "It's going to beryllium a precise agelong healing process for everyone affected."
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