The frightening details of the family massacre committed by a teenager

The mbadacre shocked the small town of Elkmont, Alabama, but also the whole country: 14-year-old boy killed his father, mother-in-law and three half-brothers in cold blood. The bloody episode occurred Monday night, but as days went by, more and more details about the crime began to be known.

The case was revealed when the boy himself, who did not transcend his identity, called 911 and said that he had heard shots at his house while he was on his way. he was in the basement. When the police arrived at the house, in a town of just 500 inhabitants, they found three bodies and two dying people, who died hours later. The young man tried to persuade the agents with an unconvincing story. Soon He confessed to being the author of the attack.

According to local media, the five-time murder occurred on Ridge Road around 10:30 pm The teenager called the emergency services half an hour after shooting all his loved ones, one by one, with a 9-millimeter pistol that he had bought illegally.

County Sheriff spokesman Stephen Young identified the adult victims as 38-year-old John Wayne Sisk and his wife, 35-year-old Mary Sisk, who were the father and mother-in-law of the province. murderer. The three children in common that the couple had also died in the mbadacre: a 6-year-old baby, a 5-year-old baby and a 6-month-old baby only.

Mary Sisk I was a teacher of special education in schools in the nearby town of Huntsville (50 km from Elkmont) and worked at Mountain Gap High School. For his part, John Wayne Sisk, who was a student at a Huntsville school, went on LinkedIn as a technician at a Huntsville auto dealership and former Internet sales manager at Rocket Harley-Davidson.

Police authorities said that the teenager, after confessing the crime, helped the investigators find the murder weapon, which was a few meters from the house. He is now detained in a youth center for five counts of murder. Officials said that it was possible for the boy to be charged as an adult. If that is the case, he could be sentenced to death.

However, Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones said that because of the age of the teenager, He could not tell if his office would try to accuse him as an adult.

The episode fuels the controversy over the huge proliferation of firearms in American homes, particularly in many southern states, such as Alabama. In this last district, there is a Long history of bloody episodes.

In 2018, five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead in Citronelle, in the south of the country. In 2012, five other people had died during a flight to Birmingham. In 2009, the most serious mbad murder in the history of Alabama goes back to Geneva County, where a 28-year-old man killed 10 people and wounded six others. , most of them familiar.