Daughter, boyfriend plotted attack on family for weeks, reports say
EMORY, Texas – A high school couple forced to break up spent weeks plotting what became a bloody spree of gunfire and stabbings in the girl's home, leaving her mother and two brothers dead and her father wounded, according to police reports released Monday.
The criminal complaints from the Rains County Sheriff's Department describe Charlie James Wilkinson, 19, telling investigators his 16-year-old girlfriend wanted her parents dead because they forbade their relationship.
"Wilkinson stated that he and [the girl] were in love and the only way they could be together is to kill the parents," the complaints state.
The reports say that a friend was offered $2,000 to join the plot.....
Authorities say Mr. Caffey (the father) was shot five times in the head, shoulders and back and crawled 300 yards through a wooded pasture to Mr. Gaston's house.
EMORY, Texas – A high school couple forced to break up spent weeks plotting what became a bloody spree of gunfire and stabbings in the girl's home, leaving her mother and two brothers dead and her father wounded, according to police reports released Monday.
The criminal complaints from the Rains County Sheriff's Department describe Charlie James Wilkinson, 19, telling investigators his 16-year-old girlfriend wanted her parents dead because they forbade their relationship.
"Wilkinson stated that he and [the girl] were in love and the only way they could be together is to kill the parents," the complaints state.
The reports say that a friend was offered $2,000 to join the plot.....
Authorities say Mr. Caffey (the father) was shot five times in the head, shoulders and back and crawled 300 yards through a wooded pasture to Mr. Gaston's house.
