The Oklahoma City Police Department said Monday in a brief news conference that they had found five people dead inside the house after receiving a report about the case.
“They all suffered violent deaths,” Police Inspector Gary Knight said on Monday.
It has now emerged that it was the family’s ten-year-old son who called the police and said that “everyone in the house appeared to be dead”.
– He said he had just woken up and found the bodies, Gary Knight said at a press conference on Tuesday.
There, the police superintendent also described the sight that greeted the officers inside the house as a “blood bath”.
– Don’t get it wrong. What happened in that home was nothing short of a massacre, he says.
Already on Monday, the police confirmed that it was not an accident – and now it says that there are probably four murders and one suicide.
In any case, the police are working on the theory that the father of the family, 42-year-old Jonathon Candy, should have first killed his wife, 39-year-old Lindsay Candy, after which he should have killed three of their sons:
18 year old Dylan, 14 year old Ethan and 12 year old Lucas.
Then the father must have turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger.
While all this was happening, the family’s youngest child, the ten-year-old boy, was sleeping in his room. His ventilation was on, which, according to the police, may explain why he did not wake up to the sounds coming from the house.
At the press conference, Gary Knight said that the motive for the bloody murders was not yet clear, but that investigators believe the shooting happened after the parents had argued.
“At some point he (Jonathan Candy) armed himself with a gun, he shot her multiple times and killed her,” Knight said.
– He then systematically went through the home and shot and killed the children.
It is still unclear why the fourth child – the ten-year-old – avoided the same tragic fate as the brothers.
Gary Knight said police had never previously had contact with the family, no previous phone calls had been made to the house and there was no immediate history of domestic violence.
The ten-year-old boy is now in the care of other family members.
In the meantime, the case is being investigated further to find out exactly what happened – and what the motive was.
