Two girls, ages 4 and 5, were asphyxiated in a auto using exhaust, while a 17-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man were fatally shot, Dearborn Heights police Lt. Michael Krause said.
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Dearborn Heights police Lt. Michael Krause told The Associated Press that officers responded after getting a 911 call from the man early Wednesday indicating that he had killed his family. Officers found the man on the porch and took him into custody, Krause said, adding he will face charges in the coming days.
A Detroit-area man who served 16 years in prison for killing his first wife was charged Thursday with killing his two children and two stepchildren, and torturing his wife. Gregory Green’s 17-year-old stepdaughter, Kara Allen, and 19-year-old stepson, Chadney J. Allen, were shot execution style in the basement of the home, authorities said.
Krause said the woman is hospitalized in critical condition.
Dearborn Heights Mayor Dan Paletko says the killings are unprecedented in the city.
Dearborn Heights police photograph a vehicle in the covered driveway of 4431 Hipp street in Detroit in Detroit, in Dearborn Heights Mich., on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.
“I said, well, if you hear a gunshot in this neighborhood at 1 o’clock in the morning – if you hear a boom – it’s unusual”, said Jeff, a neighbor who declined to give his last name and has lived on the block for 25 years.
Green served 15 years in prison for the murder of his first wife, who was pregnant, when Green stabbed in their Detroit home in 1991.
Neighbor Karen Radtke said the family moved in across the street from her home about three years ago, but she never interacted with them. Police and the medical examiner’s staff wheeled one of the teen’s bodies out of the home as neighbors watched in shock.
Neighbor Karen Radtke said the brutal attack horrified her. She is believed to be the mother of all of the children, the station reports. “I don’t understand what happened in this house, but it’s a super tragedy”.
Jones said he saw the eldest son mowing the lawn Tuesday.
Sources tell us Green went on a rampage, fueled by his belief that his wife was cheating on him.
“It’s going to be really hard to walk out my door and see this every day and remember those little kids, like, ‘Hi, Miss Michelle, ‘” Carson said.
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“Nothing we can do about it, just keep them in our prayers and do the best for the mother”, a parent at the school said. I’m shocked because they honestly just seemed like a regular family. “And they had two or three picnics with their whole family this summer”.
