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Charges Filed in Triple Slaying in Louisville

Posted: 1:30 PM Jul 17, 2012
Reporter: Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Louisville police say a man has been charged with fatally shooting his two boys and their mother.

Police spokeswoman Officer Carey Klain said Tuesday, 36-year-old John Devine is charged with three murder counts and one count of burglary. Devine is accused of breaking into a home in south Louisville early Sunday and killing the boys and their mother.

Officers found the bodies of 26-year-old Sade Goldsmith and her children, 6-year-old John Devine Jr. and 5-year-old Jon'Tee Devine. Police say they found John Devine with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Devine underwent surgery and remains hospitalized.

Police say Devine broke into the back door and shot Goldsmith by the front door near the living room. They say he then went upstairs and shot the boys while they were in bed together.