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Friday 15 September 2017

Police arrest father in killings of 3 children in California

dead at the scene. ployees, whom Elmets said
Police have not revealed are “shocked by the sense-
how the children were lessness of the tragedy.”
killed. The children’s great-grand-
West Sacramento Police mother said relatives were
Sgt. Roger Kinney said the unaware of any previous
mother was a victim of do- marital disputes.
mestic violence but that he The couple had been mar-
didn’t know the extent of ried more than a dozen
her injuries. years and had an 11-year-
He said she did not witness old boy, a 9-year-old girl
Hodges kill the children as it and another boy, born in
was initially reported. January, said Irene Aiello of
Sacramento television sta- West Sacramento.
tion KCRA earlier reported “We don’t understand
that Kinney told the station what happened, we really
the woman had witnessed don’t,” she said.
the killings. “Everything appeared to
Kinney said investigators be OK” between the cou-
told him “she was in close ple.
proximity.” She said the grandparents
Hodges is being held with- have yet to speak to Hodg-
out bail for a Monday court es or his wife.
appearance, with charges “Obviously, she’s trauma-
In this photo released by the Yolo County, Calif., Jail is Robert Hodges. Three children were killed likely to be announced that tized, and it’s going to
inside a California apartment and their father has been arrested in the deaths that followed a morning, said Yolo County take some time to find out
domestic violence altercation with his wife, authorities said Thursday. Chief Deputy District Attor- what’s going on,” Kinney
(Yolo County Jail via AP) ney Jonathan Raven. said of the mother.
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ tion with his wife, authorities police Sgt. Roger Kinney. The mother is Mai Hodges, Neighbors called 911 to
DON THOMPSON said Thursday. The children were killed at who works as a cashier report a domestic vio-
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California Highway Patrol the family’s apartment af- at Thunder Valley Casino lence incident, and as
— Three children, one a officers arrested Robert ter 9 p.m. PDT Wednesday. northeast of Sacramento, police were on the way
baby, were killed inside a Hodges, 33, on Interstate 80 Police and first respond- said casino spokesman to the apartment, some-
California apartment by in neighboring Sacramento ers tried life-saving mea- Doug Elmets. one called again to report
their father following a do- at around midnight Thurs- sures on the children, but The casino was offering the children were possibly
mestic violence alterca- day, said West Sacramento all three were pronounced grief counseling for em- dead, he said. q

Man says he served as lookout as friend shot Tennessee woman

By ADRIAN SAINZ far from her home in Deca- he saw his sister walk into theft and drug convictions He then walked to Adams’
Associated Press tur County, about 100 miles woods behind their family’s three times before he was truck and spoke with him.
A man charged in the case (160 kilometers) southwest home with an unidentified jailed in the Bobo case. “He said ‘I need you to help
of a slain Tennessee nursing of Nashville. man on the day she disap- He acknowledged being me bury this body,’” Autry
student said Thursday that Autry also is charged in peared. addicted to methamphet- said. “He said, ‘Train, that’s
he helped his friend unload connection with Bobo’s Autry said Adams told him amine and morphine. Holly Bobo.’”
the injured woman’s body rape, kidnapping and slay- that he, his brother John Autry said he had known Adams and Autry drove
from a truck and served as ing. He is on a list of witness- Dylan Adams and Autry’s Adams for several years. Adams’ truck to the river
a lookout when the friend es who could get immunity cousin Shayne Austin had He said he called Adams and retrieved Bobo’s body
shot her near a river. in the case, and he told raped Bobo. John Dylan on the day of Bobo’s disap- from the back of the ve-
Jason Autry testified in the prosecutor Jennifer Nichols Adams also is charged in pearance asking Adams hicle, he said. He said they
trial of Zachary Adams in during questioning that he the case. His trial has not for a morphine pill. When didn’t have the necessary
Savannah, Tennessee. Ad- was testifying because he been set. Austin was found Adams called him back, he tools to dig a grave, so they
ams, 33, has pleaded not wanted leniency. dead in an apparent sui- told Autry that he needed decided to throw her into
guilty to kidnapping, rap- Adams’ trial began Mon- cide in Florida in February his help. the river.
ing and killing Holly Bobo, day. Autry’s testimony pro- 2015. Autry then drove to Aus- But Bobo made a sound
who was 20 when she dis- vided the most detailed Wearing a white prison uni- tin’s trailer. Autry, whose and moved, indicating she
appeared from her home description of the con- form with the words “maxi- nickname is “Train,” said was still alive. Adams went
in Parsons on April 13, 2011. nection between Adams mum security” on the back he bought a pill and went to his truck and retrieved a
Her remains were found 3 and Bobo’s killing. Bobo’s of his shirt, Autry told jurors to his car, cooked it down pistol, Autry said. Autry said
½ years later in woods not brother, Clint, has testified he had been locked up for and injected it. he told Adams to wait. q