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Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears speaks at a press conference Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in downtown Indianapolis. Mears announced that Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III, 17, has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting his father, stepmother, two teenage relatives and a 19-year-old pregnant woman in the family's home. (Grace Hollars/The Indianapolis Star via AP) Thursday, January 28, 2021 2:58 PM EST By RICK CALLAHAN, AP
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy accused of fatally shooting his father, stepmother, two teenage relatives and a heavily pregnant 19-year-old woman at his home was charged with six counts of murder Thursday, according to a prosecutor and court documents.
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Childs is accused of shooting Raymond Childs Jr., 42; Kezzie Childs, 42; Elijah Childs, 18; Rita Childs, 13; and Kiara Hawkins, 19, and her unborn son at a home in the 3500 block of Adams Street Sunday morning.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers initially responded to the 3300 block of East 36th Street on a report of a person shot. Officers found a juvenile boy, later identified as Raymond Childs’s 15-year-old brother, who had been shot. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
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The gun allegedly used in the mass murder of a family on Adams Street in Indianapolis on Jan. 24.
The victims are the teen suspect's 42-year-old father Raymond Childs, his mother Kezzie, 42, a 13-year-old sister Rita and his 18-year-old brother Elijah Childs. Also killed were Elijah's 19-year-old girlfriend Kiara Hawkins and their unborn child, referred to as "Baby Boy Hawkins."
Credit: Childs family
Raymond and Kezzie Childs
Another sibling, injured by gunfire, escaped the home in the 3500 block of Adams Street and ran to a neighborhood house for help. That sibling told responding officers what led to the gunfire, according to IMPD.
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INDIANAPOLIS–Murder charges have been filed against Raymond Ronald Lee Childs, III. He’s the teenager accused of killing six people, including his father and stepmother, and a pregnant mother and her unborn child, Sunday, Jan. 24.
No death penalty
Childs was arrested Monday. But Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears declined to release his name or photo, saying he was underage. Childs said at Thursday’s news conference that because Childs is 17, he must be charged in adult court. But, because he is still not an adult, they cannot seek the death penalty.
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