A family's opposition to a teenage daughter's romance is suspected of leading to a fiery attack that left the girl's mother and brothers dead and her father critically wounded, investigators said on Sunday.
Four suspects, including the 16-year-old daughter, remained in custody on capital murder charges on Sunday, a day after the pre-dawn attack on the rural East Texas home of Terry and Penny Caffey.
Terry Caffey, who was shot in the head, was able to crawl about 275m to a neighbor's house to seek help, while flames consumed his home with his wife and two young sons inside, the Rains County Sheriff's Department said. Penny Caffey, 37; Tyler Caffey, eight; and Mathew Caffey 13, had been shot and stabbed multiple times, the statement said.
Investigators later found the daughter hiding at the rural Texas home of one of the suspects, the statement said. It was not clear from the account which of the suspects she was dating. Sheriff's deputies withheld her name because of her age.
Charlie Wilkinson, 19; Charles Wade, 20; and Bobbi Johnson, 18, are each charged with three counts of capital murder, according to the sheriff's department.
They remained in Rains County Jail with bonds set at US$1.5 million each.
The daughter is confined in neighboring Hunt County's juvenile detention center in Greenville.
Terry Caffey was in critical but stable condition on Sunday in East Texas Medical Center in Tyler.
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