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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: flowers on July 10, 2014, 04:04:59 pm

Title: The family wiped out by bitter uncle who 'tied up and shot six dead execution-style in a rage over split with his wife' before hero niece, 15, with bullet in her head, called police
Post by: flowers on July 10, 2014, 04:04:59 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2686838/Six-dead-shooting-Houston-home-police-hunt-family-member-suspect.html

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    Police in Houston, Texas, arrested 33-year-old Ron Lee Haskell on Wednesday night after a tense stand-off at a suburban cul-de-sac
    Haskell is suspected of shooting dead four of five children in a home
    Tried to enter home wearing FedEx uniform looking for his estranged wife
    Shot dead his victims 'execution-style' in the back of the head
    The victims were two boys, ages 4 and 14; two girls, ages 7 and 9
    Adults identified as Stephen Stay, 39 and Katie Stay, 34
    Teenage girl, 15, also a victim and suffered a critical injury to the head
    She played dead until Haskell left and phoned 911 to alert authorities
    However, his wife was not in the house at the time of the shooting
    Police said that the shooting was probably the result of a marriage breakdown