Flasch186
06-02-2006, 08:16 AM
Thats just horrible!! So terrible that some people are capable of this.
Police: Seven slain in Indianapolis home
Friday, June 2, 2006; Posted: 8:58 a.m. EDT (12:58 GMT)
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (CNN) -- A manhunt was on Friday for suspects in the slayings of seven extended family members, including three children, gunned down with assault rifles in a crime authorities called Indianapolis' worst in decades.
Authorities have identified one suspect, 28-year-old Desmond Turner, and said they believe there is at least one more.
Police appealed to anyone who might have known the victims or the suspect to contact them.
"This incident has shocked our police department and shocked our city," said Indianapolis Police Chief Michael Spears. "We do not have these kinds of crimes." (Watch details of a crime that may be the worst-ever in Indianapolis -- 1:18)
"We haven't seen anything like this in Indianapolis in recent memory," Deputy Mayor Steve Campbell told The Associated Press. "The I.P.D.[Indianapolis Police Department] folks are saying you have to go back 20, 30 years to find anything like this."
The victims, found by officers responding to a call of shots fired about 10:15 p.m. Thursday, included four adults and three children, all Hispanic.
Police identified the adult victims as Emma Valdez, 46; her husband, Alberto Covarrubias, 56; Flora Albarran, 22, Valdez's daughter; and Magno Aldarran, 29, Flora's husband. The children were identified as Luis Albarran, 5, Flora Albarran's son; Alberto Covarrubias, 11, and David Covarrubias, 8.
The children were found shot to death in the same bed, Deputy Police Chief Tim Foley said. He said police do not know if the children were sleeping there or hiding.
"It was a home invasion ... everyone in the residence was dead," Foley said, displaying pictures of some of the victims. "I don't believe it was random. There's obviously a motivation there."
All the victims appeared to have been shot with assault rifles, he said, and shell casings were found at the scene.
The home was not a "trouble spot," Foley said. Police had only been called there once in recent history, on an alarm check. He said police do not think the killings were gang-related.
Neighbors said the area had declined in recent years and that drug crimes and muggings had become common, according to an AP report.
A woman, found at the scene but outside the house, was a friend of one of the victims, the 22-year-old woman, and heard her screaming after she apparently went inside the house to pick up her child, the 5-year-old, Foley said. He refused to release details, saying only that the friend was understandably upset but providing information to the police.
Earlier, police spokesman Sgt. Steve Staletovich said officers on the scene "found a young woman crying that her mother had been shot."
The gunman or gunmen are thought to have entered the home from the front and left the same way, Foley said. Police do not believe they were injured.
Turner, of Indianapolis, has a criminal history with some indications of violence, but "nothing as serious as murder," Foley said. Authorities believe he is still in the area. "We're hoping he's probably lying low right now," Foley said.
Asked if police consider him armed and dangerous, he said, "Anyone who has killed seven human beings, I consider dangerous."
Spears described Turner as "a very desperate person," and said, "Someone knows where this guy is, and we want to know."
Police: Seven slain in Indianapolis home
Friday, June 2, 2006; Posted: 8:58 a.m. EDT (12:58 GMT)
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (CNN) -- A manhunt was on Friday for suspects in the slayings of seven extended family members, including three children, gunned down with assault rifles in a crime authorities called Indianapolis' worst in decades.
Authorities have identified one suspect, 28-year-old Desmond Turner, and said they believe there is at least one more.
Police appealed to anyone who might have known the victims or the suspect to contact them.
"This incident has shocked our police department and shocked our city," said Indianapolis Police Chief Michael Spears. "We do not have these kinds of crimes." (Watch details of a crime that may be the worst-ever in Indianapolis -- 1:18)
"We haven't seen anything like this in Indianapolis in recent memory," Deputy Mayor Steve Campbell told The Associated Press. "The I.P.D.[Indianapolis Police Department] folks are saying you have to go back 20, 30 years to find anything like this."
The victims, found by officers responding to a call of shots fired about 10:15 p.m. Thursday, included four adults and three children, all Hispanic.
Police identified the adult victims as Emma Valdez, 46; her husband, Alberto Covarrubias, 56; Flora Albarran, 22, Valdez's daughter; and Magno Aldarran, 29, Flora's husband. The children were identified as Luis Albarran, 5, Flora Albarran's son; Alberto Covarrubias, 11, and David Covarrubias, 8.
The children were found shot to death in the same bed, Deputy Police Chief Tim Foley said. He said police do not know if the children were sleeping there or hiding.
"It was a home invasion ... everyone in the residence was dead," Foley said, displaying pictures of some of the victims. "I don't believe it was random. There's obviously a motivation there."
All the victims appeared to have been shot with assault rifles, he said, and shell casings were found at the scene.
The home was not a "trouble spot," Foley said. Police had only been called there once in recent history, on an alarm check. He said police do not think the killings were gang-related.
Neighbors said the area had declined in recent years and that drug crimes and muggings had become common, according to an AP report.
A woman, found at the scene but outside the house, was a friend of one of the victims, the 22-year-old woman, and heard her screaming after she apparently went inside the house to pick up her child, the 5-year-old, Foley said. He refused to release details, saying only that the friend was understandably upset but providing information to the police.
Earlier, police spokesman Sgt. Steve Staletovich said officers on the scene "found a young woman crying that her mother had been shot."
The gunman or gunmen are thought to have entered the home from the front and left the same way, Foley said. Police do not believe they were injured.
Turner, of Indianapolis, has a criminal history with some indications of violence, but "nothing as serious as murder," Foley said. Authorities believe he is still in the area. "We're hoping he's probably lying low right now," Foley said.
Asked if police consider him armed and dangerous, he said, "Anyone who has killed seven human beings, I consider dangerous."
Spears described Turner as "a very desperate person," and said, "Someone knows where this guy is, and we want to know."