An Ohio father allegedly executed his three young sons side by side with a rifle at his home, but his terrified daughter fled screaming “I’ll kill them all,” prosecutors said Friday.
Chad Dorman, 32, who was also charged with shooting the boys’ mother’s hand in the aftermath of a nauseating ordeal at his Monroe Township home Thursday afternoon, has been charged with aggravated murder. was done.
Prosecutors said one of the boys, ages 3, 4 and 7, had attempted to flee to a nearby field before being “hunted down” by their father, taken back home and then shot dead. announced. Events during Dorman’s Friday morning arraignment.
“This is the most disgusting and horrifying crime I have ever seen,” Clermont County Prosecutor Mark Tekurb said in court. WKRC TV.
“I can only imagine the horror these little boys felt and experienced when their protective father murdered them.”
The boys were found outside their home by police shortly before 4:30 p.m., after two 911 callers reported a bloody scare to authorities.
The first call was apparently from a mother screaming “my baby was shot” and the second was from a passing driver who ran down the street saying “my father is killing everyone”. It was said that he was there.
Authorities said the three boys, whose names were not released, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The 34-year-old mother, whose identity is unknown, was also found outside the house with gunshot wounds in her hand.
Prosecutors say she was shot dead while trying to steal Doman’s gun.
The mother, whose injuries are not life-threatening, was treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. It was not immediately clear whether her surviving daughter was also injured, nor was her age.
Dorman, meanwhile, was found hunched over at his home and was quickly taken into custody without incident.
During subsequent interrogation by detectives, the father is believed to have admitted to lining up the boys in the garden and shooting them.
He also allegedly confessed to planning the murder for several months.
“The trauma this man inflicted on families, communities, law enforcement, first responders, and the rest of us is indescribable,” lead prosecutor David Gust said in court. The evil terror you know is terrifying,” he added. Impossible to process. “
Authorities have not yet released a motive for the shooting.
Dorman was charged with three counts of aggravated murder. His bail was set at $20 million.
with post wire