- A man has been arrested in the US on suspicion of murdering
nine of his children, after a custody dispute.
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- Police found the bodies stacked in a pile of clothes
at a house in Fresno, California after a stand-off. They also found ten
coffins.
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- The victims are said to be a woman in her 20s, a 17-year-old
girl and seven young children aged between one and eight years old.
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- Police commandos arrested Marcus Wesson, 57, after he
gave himself up.
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- "We do believe at this time that the deceased individuals,
most if not all, are the suspect's children," said Fresno Police Chief
Jerry Dyer.
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- Police received a call on Friday afternoon from two women
that a man had their children inside the house and refused to hand them
over.
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- After a two hour stand-off with police, the man came
out covered in what appeared to be blood and was arrested.
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- Police later found the ten coffins stacked up against
a wall inside the home.
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- They have refused to say how the victims were killed,
but a neighbour reported hearing a number of gunshots.
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- Chief Dyer said all the officers involved were totally
shocked, and that some of those who entered the house first had needed
counselling.
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- "I've been with the Fresno Police Department for
25 years, and I've never experienced anything of this nature," he
said.
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- Mayor Alan Autry said: "The only thing we can do
now is mourn. We mourn for the kids, we mourn for the police.
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- "We will never be the same again."
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- © BBC MMIV
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3507958.stm
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