A pregnant teenager, her mother and 12-year-old brother were found murdered in a gruesome scene in Alabama, in what investigators believe was a premeditated and calculated killing.
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch told local TV station WALA that deputies found a mother and child stabbed and a pregnant teenager shot inside a Wilmer, Alabama, home on Monday. However, the teen's 18-month-old child was inside the home uninjured.
Officials identified the victims as 46-year-old Lisa Fields, 17-year-old Keziah Luker and 12-year-old Thomas Cordelle Junior.
According to the sheriff, investigators believe multiple people entered the house and tied up the victims in separate rooms.
“They had a plan when they came in,”
Burch said during a press conference Monday. “All of the victims had their hands bound behind them with zip ties or flex cuffs."
Once the victims were subdued, officials said the perpetrators began killing them.
“The mother was stabbed, the 17-year-old was shot, and the 12-year-old’s throat was cut as was the mom,” Burch said. “It tells me that they had a plan coming in to bring zip ties or flex cuffs with them, so they had a plan.”
"The 12-year-old was almost decapitated. And so it was a brutal scene, and I hope and feel comfortable we'll have this animal, or animals, off the street soon," Burch described.
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