Was It Magic Missile He Attempted? Should'a Been Cure Light Wounds!
I had to take a full second to let it settle with me. But in all its glory; here it is from:
The Sioux City Journal, [available: Online ]
Two children dead in 'suspicious' fire
Firefighters carry bodies from windows on second story
SIOUX CITY -- Sioux City police are investigating the deaths of two children after firefighters carried them out the second-floor windows of a smoke-filled house Sunday afternoon.
Police are investigating the fire, at 1420 Nebraska St., as suspicious, department spokesman Marti Reilly said in a 9 p.m. news conference Sunday.
Reilly said authorities believe the children lived in the home, but he declined to release their names or ages, or to confirm they were both girls, as fire officials at the scene had said. He said they were withholding names until family members could be notified.
He also declined to identify the children's parents, saying there were "issues" with the parents. He confirmed the children had "more than two" parents.
He said he had no information on whether anyone else was in the house at the time, but said the other people who lived there were aware of the fire.
Firefighters believed the children were dead when they carried them from the home, Reilly said, but paramedics continued to do first aid all the way to St. Luke's Regional Hospital and until they were pronounced dead.
He said the cause of death was suspicious but won't be known until after autopsies are performed. The autopsies are scheduled for this morning.
He said both fire and police departments are investigating the cause of the fire, which they know started in the basement of the home. He said he didn't know how it started.
The 911 fire call was made at 4:19 p.m. from a cell phone by a caller who declined to be identified, Reilly said.
Neighbors stood on their porches and across the street in the unseasonably mild weather watching as more than a dozen firefighters put out the source of the smoke while others carried the children's bodies, one by one, from the porch roof, down a ladder and into a waiting ambulance.
A little girl who lives next door said she and two girls who lived in the smoky house walked to elementary school together and gave their names. A little boy in the yard asked why they died, although it was not clear then that they had or that the children carried out were the two girls they knew.
Sioux City Fire Marshal Chuck Hirsch and police investigators arrived at the house shortly after the children were taken out and police crime scene ribbon was put around the property.
Fire department spokesman Joe Rodriguez said at the scene that city computer records did not indicate who owned the property or whether the owner also lived in the house.
--------which was the original story.... then.... dum dum dum... the update!!!!!
Two dead in ritual killing
Girls, 8 and 10, stabbed, strangled; suspect says deaths a spell gone bad
SIOUX CITY -- Two girls found dead in a smoke-filled house Sunday were the victims of a ritual slaying, police said Monday.
Their stepfather, Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., 25, has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kendra Suing, 10, and Alysha Suing, 8.
Police Lt. Marti Reilly said Harris had been performing "some strange ritual." Harris told investigators he was casting a spell that "had gone bad" and the spell "could have had severe consequences," according to Sioux City Police Chief Joe Frisbie.
Harris is being held at the Woodbury County Jail in lieu of $2 million bond and is set to appear in court Jan. 17.
At a news conference Monday afternoon, Frisbie said Kendra and Alysha Suing were were dead before the fire and appear to have died of strangulation and stab wounds. Frisbie said an official cause of death will not be released for several days.
Sioux City Police and Fire departments responded Sunday afternoon to an anonymous report of a fire at 1420 Nebraska St. When officers arrived at the scene, Frisbie said, Harris indicated that the victims were dead in their bedrooms. Frisbie said Harris told authorities he was the only adult present at the scene. The girls' mother, Marla Harris, also lives at the house.
"You're talking about people casting spells, spells gone bad," Frisbie said. "Obviously, there is a lot more going on here than a straightforward homicide."
Frisbie said Harris also "appeared to have blood on his person" at the scene. He said the investigation is ongoing and declined to say whether Harris had confessed to the murders or whether the girls had been sexually assaulted.
Frisbie confirmed that the fire was set in the basement of the home but declined to speculate on whether it was set as part of a ritual or to cover up evidence.
"A lot of times arson is generally used to cover up other criminal activity," Frisbie said. "I don't know if that was his intent at this point."
The murder is the first multiple homicide in Sioux City since the August 2001 slayings of Leticia Aguilar, her five children and businessman Ronald Fish.
On Monday afternoon, family members removed furniture from the house, which had miminal damage, and loaded it into a red pickup truck. Two pictures, of Alysha and Kendra Suing, sat on a small plastic orange and yellow picnic table on the front porch.
The Suings were students at Irving Elementary School. They transferred to the district in April from out of state, said Sioux City Community Schools Superintendent Larry Williams.
Family members said Kendra and Alysha Suing enjoyed spending time on computers, reading books and listening to music. A favorite song was "Barbie Girl."
Joe Suing of St. Helena, Neb., whose son Craig Suing of Springfield, Ill., is the girls' father, said he hadn't talked to the girls in two years.
"You know, I wish I'd got to know them a little better," Joe Suing said. "I do know that when they used to come to visit, they liked to see their grandpa when they did see him."
He said the girls' mother, Marla Harris, and Harris had married about a year ago but said, "I don't know the situation, what the guy was like."
"It makes a guy mad that they have to pick on kids," Suing said. "If it was a grownup or somebody that had the ability to protect themselves or had a 50-50 chance, you know ...."
"I don't think it's really sank in for me yet," he said.
Williams said counselors and a limited number of faculty members were informed of the deaths before school started Monday morning. He said a general announcement was made individually to each class.
"In a situation of this case, we're almost just as concerned with the welfare of the adults that work closely with these children as we are with the children," Williams said while fighting back tears. "There were a lot of tears this morning."
Williams said multiple counselors were on hand throughout the school day to help students cope with the tragedy and they may be present at the elementary school today.
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Its hillarious.... yes. Yah, its said, he killed his kids. But, did he really need to go Dungeons and Dragons on their asses? Yes, he flipped off the Magic Missile, but someone must have mingled with the vocations step of his spell.... OHZ NOZ!!!11!!!1elventy1 Fantastically he failed his Saving Throw vs. Fire so poorly, he must have lobbed the d20 off the table... because not only were the goblins still advancing, but he'd managed to kill off his party, and light the basement on fire!!! Cure Light Wounds won't help now! How many experience points do you loose for that? N00b. Maybe he should try practicing, Cone of Protection on his asshole when he goes to prison for murder.... or at least pray that no one is playing Rogue class with his jail house wallet !!! 150 XP for all who read this without laughing... -50 for everyone who know what the references meant!Daddy, whats LARP? And why do you have a water bottle tucked in your blanket, tucked into your pants like that?
Next game I call DM!
