A young man who has slaughtered six members of his family has been sentenced to 360 years in prison.
Jury members found Raymond Childs III in October to kill his relatives during a bloody rampage in Indianapolis on January 24, 2021, when he was 17 years old.
Now 20, Childs has been convicted of killing his father, stepmother, older brother, younger sister, the girlfriend of his pregnant older brother and future cousin.
They were respectively identified as Raymond Childs Jr., 42, Kezzie Childs, 42, Elia Childs, 18, Rita Childs, 13, Kiara Hawkins, 19, and her unborn child Khaos Hawkins.
Marion County Officer Ryan Mears said that the shooting came from the child who broke his curfew and his father punishes him in their meadows, Indianapolis, according to the Sacramento Bee.
“What happened inside that at home is just as incomprehensible today as in 2021,” said Mears after the conviction, according to the outlet.
“It has been an incredibly difficult journey for the family and friends of the six people we have lost tragically.”
Childs showed little expression on Tuesday during his condemnation session, while he was wearing a light blue shirt and a checkered tie. His five -day trial ended in October 2024 with convictions about all six murder counts, as well as one census of attempted murder.
Prosecutors said he collapsed the house and opened the fire on his family with a Draco 7.62 gun and a 9mm gun, in which almost everyone was killed on his path, including Kiara's unborn child, who would be delivered only two days later.
Jury members found Raymond Childs III in October to kill his relatives during a bloody rampage in Indianapolis on January 24, 2021, when he was 17 years old. He showed very little expression during his hearing on Tuesday in Marion County, as shown above
Childs III shot his mother Kezzie Childs, 42, Sister Rita Childs, 13, brother Elia Childs, 18, and father Raymond Childs, 42
The convicted murderer also killed the girlfriend of his brother Elia Kiara Hawkins, 19, and her unborn son
During the massacre, the convicted murderer also shot his younger brother, Xavier Childs, then 15. He was brought to the hospital and survived in critical condition.
“To see him behind bars for the rest of his life, that would be justice for me,” said Roniqua Hawkins, Kiara's deeply sad mother, 13News when the trial began.
He was found guilty of six murder attacks, one count of wearing a gun with a permit and one counting of attempted murder
At that time, the girlfriend of Childs III, only in a likely cause of statement as JD, said the rampage said after the father of the teenager called him to return home that day.
The sworn explanation has detailed how Childs III settled a fleeing Xavier and shot him twice as he begged for his life on the veranda of the family.
After a survival of the emergency operation, Xavier said police officers that he heard his father say that he told Childs III: “I am sorry Raymond, I love you,” before he shot his parents in their bed.
Xavier also said that before his eldest brother Elia died, he begged at Childs III not to shoot and said: 'I can give you 40 dollars. I will say nothing. Please do not kill me, 'judicial documents revealed.
Hawkins, who had been to bed with Elijah, was transported to a local hospital, where she died with her unborn baby despite life -saving measures, the police said.
During the massacre, the convicted murderer also shot his younger brother, Xavier Childs (photo), then 15. He was brought to the hospital in critical condition and survived
Justice officers claim that Childs III ran into the house and opened the fire on his family with a Draco 7.62 gun and a 9mm gun. (Depicted: Images of the Draco gun used in the massacre)
The then girlfriend of the murderer later told that he left in a Uber and then returned somewhere before 3 o'clock the next day to her house in a white Chrysler that she said she had never seen him riding before.
About 30 minutes after Childs III returned to her house, JD said she got an alert on her phone on a shooting on Adams Street. She asked him if he knew something about it and he said no.
Later in the morning JD said she convinced Childs III to go to the crime scene and said he seemed “nervous.” When they both came there, he started crying and “acted a clown,” she said.
They then went back to her house, where he grabbed part of his clothes and asked her to drive him to another house.
After she had dropped him off, JD said she saw a gun flying out of the pile of clothing that had been left on the floor Childs III.
Childs III was arrested at the house of a family member a day after the murders after his brother identified him as the shooter.
The gun was found from the parental home and the draco -fire weapon was found after Childs III was arrested, said Marion County public prosecutor Ryan Mears.
After a survival of an emergency operation, Xavier said police officers that he heard his father say that he told Childs III: “I am sorry Raymond, I love you,” before he shoots his parents in their bed
Xavier said before his oldest brother Elia (photo) died, he was notgged not to shoot childs III and said: 'I can give you 40 dollars. I will say nothing. Please do not kill me, 'court documents revealed
Videos later appeared from Childs III, who used the name 'Lil Raymond', rapping over guns and shootings
Videos later appeared from Childs III, who used the name 'Lil Raymond', 'Rappen over weapons and shootings, Pastor Kenneth Sullivan Jr. earlier to Wthr.
“It is really complicated, it really hurts,” said Sullivan, whose relationship with the Child's family is unclear.
Sullivan said it was possible that the “aspiring artist” acted “things” that he touched when he carried out the shooting.
After the slaughter, Kiara's mother, Roniqua, said to Dailymail.com: 'She was my first. Everything she taught me made me the wife and mother I am today. '
At the time, the grieving mother created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for funeral costs, with a photo of her teenage daughter who croses her baby hump.
On July 23, 2024, a judge declared a mistrial at the first process of Childs III after a witness verbally confronted the now convicted murderer, AP reported.
The process was closed after three hours of deliberation by the jury in a courthouse in Marion County.
