Man charged with killing family!

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Just hours before a man was to attend a memorial service for his wife and three young children, authorities arrested him at a Missouri funeral home on charges of gunning down his family in their sport utility vehicle.

Police initially said Christopher Vaughn, 32, was not a suspect in the killings that were discovered June 14 after Vaughn flagged down a motorist on a service road in Channahon, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.
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sick individual.

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Christopher Vaughn charged with murder


06/23/2007

The Vaughn family: (from upper left) Christopher, Kimberly, Abigayle, and (from bottom left) Cassandra and Blake.
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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- A suburban Chicago man found shot near the bodies of his wife and their three children in the family sport utility vehicle earlier this month was charged Saturday in their shooting deaths.

Christopher Vaughn, 32, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder, prosecutor James Glasgow said at a news conference in Joliet.

Missouri authorities arrested Vaughn on Saturday morning at a funeral home near St. Louis just before the scheduled start of services for 34-year-old Kimberly Vaughn and her children -- Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, Glasgow said.

Their bodies were found June 14 in a 2004 Ford Expedition parked on a service road near Interstate 55 in Channahon, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Kimberly Vaughn was shot once and the children were shot twice.

"We are hopeful Kimberly Vaughn and her three beautiful children can rest in peace," Glasgow, who declined to discuss possible motives, said on Saturday. "Everyone who came in contact with this case was moved by what they saw."

The bodies were discovered after police received a 911 call from a passer-by flagged down by Christopher Vaughn, authorities have said. A handgun was found at the scene.

Vaughn, who works as a computer forensic adviser, had been shot in the thigh and was released from a nearby hospital later that day. Police initially said he was not a suspect.

The Vaughns, who once lived in Missouri, moved from Washington state to the Chicago area about a year ago. They lived briefly in Aurora before relocating to a spacious home in Oswego.

Glasgow said he hoped Vaughn would be extradited from Missouri to Illinois soon. He said Vaughn indicated he intended to fight extradition.


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By Bill Lhotka and Susan Weich | Post-Dispatch

Christopher Vaughn was taken into custody at the St. Charles County jail at 11:15 a.m. today -- just two hours before the funeral of his wife and three children who were fatally shot June 14 about 55 miles southwest of Chicago.

Christopher Vaughn, 32, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder.

More than 200 mourners, including Christopher Vaughn, attended the visitation Friday at the Baue Funeral and Memorial Center in St. Charles for Kimberly Vaughn, 34, and her children, Abigayle, 12; Cassandra, 11; and Blake, 8.

A passer-by found them in the family's Ford Expedition on a road off Interstate 55. Christopher Vaughn suffered a bullet wound to his thigh and was the only survivor. He has been under investigation by the Illinois State Police since the shooting.

The funeral for his wife and children will be held at New Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Peters at 1 p.m., with a private burial to follow.

Both Christopher and Kimberly Vaughn grew up in the St. Louis area.