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A 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend have been charged with gunning down five of the girl’s family members in Illinois in a petty falling out over her education, according to her dad.
The girl — whose case is currently in juvenile court — and her boyfriend, Ja’ymier Davis, 16, were charged in what cops called the “targeted mass shooting” that also injured two others at three locations across East St. Louis on Sunday, according to prosecutors.
The five dead were relatives of the girl, including her 74-year-old grandma, her accused killer’s dad, Marcus May, 40, revealed.
“I lost my whole family in one fell swoop,” May told the St Louis Post-Dispatch from outside his East St. Louis home.
May identified the dead as his stepchildren, Quentin Thompson, 21, and Shania Thompson, 25; his nephew Devin May, 24; his sister Cherie May, 49; and his mother Patricia May, 74.
Davis also allegedly dismembered Patricia by slicing off her thumb, according to a 12-count indictment handed down by the St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s Office and seen by FOX 2 NOW.
May said his daughter, who lived with her mother in East St. Louis, had fallen out with her parents after they began homeschooling her because she was getting into trouble at school.
The teen had also allegedly run away from home and stolen her mother’s debit card on previous occasions, the grieving father said.
Early last week, the teen allegedly stole her mother’s gun and ran away again, leading her mother to report her missing and the weapon stolen.
The girl had even revealed her plan for a mass shooting — but no one took it seriously, the dad alleged.
May woke up Sunday to a phone full of missed calls and messages following his daughter’s alleged bloody rampage.
His stepdaughter’s body was found in a car behind an empty house around the corner from his house, while his stepson was found in the city’s Jones Park, May said.
Two other bodies were found at a housing complex a few miles down the road, police said on Sunday.
Two other relatives were found with serious gunshot injuries at Jones Park, May said.
His sister Cherie’s body was also found on Sunday, although she had been shot days earlier, according to police.
The two alleged teen killers were arrested after Illinois State Police troopers performed a PIT maneuver to stop their vehicle at the nearby Frank Holten State Park.
Davis faces five counts of murder, one of dismembering a human body, two of attempted murder, two of aggravated battery, one of aggravated vehicular hijacking, and one of unlawful use of a stolen firearm, according to the indictment.
He is being held at the St. Clair County Jail, with no date given for his next court appearance.
The girl’s case is starting in juvenile court before a possible transfer to the St Clair County Criminal Court, the county prosecutor’s office said.
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