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You got all the kids are dead in the house. Okay, how many people?

Six kids, one adult.

Six kids and one adult? Yeah, one is a baby.

I think everyone has a bit of a

I think everyone has a bit of fascination with the dark side.

I myself always love the dark side as well. I think it's something that everyone secretly longs for and wants.

I just shot my daughter and shot all my grandkids,

and I'll be sitting on my step, and when you get here, I'm going to shoot myself.

Dark side, On Thursday, September 18th, 2014, around 4 p.m. in the afternoon, Don Spirit shot and killed his daughter and six grandchildren. Then, around half an hour later, once police had arrived on scene, he turned

his pistol on himself, ending his own life. Deputy Brittany Lee was one of the first officers

to enter the trailer home, which was truly a house of horrors.

Shanted through the back door on the east side because Deputy Adderholt had informed her that the front door was not working.

Well, I know the house in times past, the front door does not have a handle on it.

He had replaced the handle due to some things years ago and it was like two dead bolts

something.

Deputy Lee first went to the north bedroom where she located a little girl shot dead on the futon.

Later identified as victim number one, Destiny N. Stewart, age 5,

and a little boy later identified as Jonathan Coleman, age 8, who was curled up in a ball next to the futon on the floor.

Deputy Lee remarked that appeared that Jonathan was trying to hide.

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