Lancaster – A personal trainer from California is said to have beheaded his daughter (13) and his son (12). Maurice Taylor Sr., 34, has been in custody since Friday. Security deposit: two million US dollars (1.65 million euros).
The Los Angeles County Fire Department was alerted about a possible gas leak on Friday morning at around 8 a.m. Everything was fine with the gas pipe, but when the fire brigade entered the house in Lancaster, they discovered the children’s bodies in two different rooms. Both had “lacerations and stab wounds,” says the police report. It was unclear how long the girl and boy had been dead.
The mayor of the city of 150,000, R. Rex Parris, confirmed the “Los Angeles Times“That both victims were beheaded. “It was pretty brutal,” he says.
According to the report, the parents were at home and got into the police cars without resistance. The mother of the killed children was interrogated but not arrested. In the house, the officers found two other children who were apparently unharmed. As a precaution, they were taken to a hospital for examination.
Taylor’s clients knew the personal trainer as “responsible, reliable and gentle,” writes the Los Angeles Times. Because of Corona, he worked from home. When he did not send a link to online training last week and was not available for days, some of his customers informed the fire department. “We were concerned about a possible gas leak,” Howard Kern tells the newspaper. “There were four children and two adults in the house – we were concerned about their safety.”
The police are now trying to find out what happened in the days before the brutal crime.
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