Post by &hearts (MEG) on Jun 29, 2009 11:35:29 GMT -5
Police: Va. dad lured son home, then shot him
Posted 2h 57m ago
AXTON, Va. (AP) — A college student who survived a shooting that killed his mother and brother told police his father lured him to the family's house in southwest Virginia.
Henry Carter remained in fair condition at a North Carolina hospital Monday morning.
Police say Carter's father, 56-year-old William Ronald Carter, fatally shot his wife Bonnie and their 29-year-old son William Ronald Carter Jr. shortly after midnight Sunday, and then shot himself. All three bodies were found in the basement of the family's burning home in Axton.
Henry Carter was wounded but escaped and fled to neighbor Deborah Akers' house.
Akers told The Roanoke Times the 22-year-old said his father called him at Radford University student and said something was wrong with his brother and he needed to come home.
Source: USA Today
Posted 2h 57m ago
AXTON, Va. (AP) — A college student who survived a shooting that killed his mother and brother told police his father lured him to the family's house in southwest Virginia.
Henry Carter remained in fair condition at a North Carolina hospital Monday morning.
Police say Carter's father, 56-year-old William Ronald Carter, fatally shot his wife Bonnie and their 29-year-old son William Ronald Carter Jr. shortly after midnight Sunday, and then shot himself. All three bodies were found in the basement of the family's burning home in Axton.
Henry Carter was wounded but escaped and fled to neighbor Deborah Akers' house.
Akers told The Roanoke Times the 22-year-old said his father called him at Radford University student and said something was wrong with his brother and he needed to come home.
Source: USA Today
