Family Slaying Kills Five
On July - 28 - 2014
Police: Murder-suicide probed in family slaying
An apparent murder-suicide that left a father, mother and their three young children dead in a Saco, Maine, apartment rattled the quiet city and shocked friends who said the family patriarch was friendly and outgoing. This afternoon police said they are looking at Joel Smith, 33, the father and husband, as the cause of the horrific slaying. Killed were his wife, Heather Smith, 35, and their three children — 12-year-old Jason Montez, 7-year-old Noah Montez and 4-year-old Lily Smith. “It appears they were sleeping,” Saco Police Sgt. Chris Harriman said of the victims, who were killed in the master bedroom and a child’s room with a shotgun. READ MORE HERE
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