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Father Kills 2 Of 13 ChildrenThe bodies of two children who police say were shot and killed by their father near Albany, Ga. Wednesday morning were to arrive In Blacksburg today.Police said former Blacksburg resident Moses Janney, Sr. the father of 13 children, whose wife had /left him, fatally wounded the two boys as they lay in a single bed.I'm the man that shot them two boys In there,•• Janney, 46, a combat veteran of World War n, .Said when police arrived. /Janney was charged with twooounts of murder in the deaths of Moses Nathan la! Janney Jr., 11,. who was shot in the temple, and Steven Wayne Janney, 12, hit between the eyes by a .22 .caliber rifle slug. Steven died about two hours after the shooting.Janney, who spent more than two years in combat, offered no explanation for the shooting at the rural home, in the Acree Community about seven miles east of Albany, Ga,I would like to go to the funeral,»» Janney told Dougherty County Deputy Frank Sumner.TTils has been scheduled for 2 p.m. at Jones Funeral Church In Blacksburg, Burial, is to follow In Roselawn Memorial Gardens.Sumner said six of the 13 children, ranging In age from six to 24, were at home at the time while Janney»s wife was reported to be in Blacksburg, Va., to make arrangements for a divorce and ahome for herself and the children.Police were summoned by Janney's 15-year-old daughter Hattie, who ran to a neighbor's house after the shootings.Asked why he shot the boys, Janney said, «I don't know. I ]ust jumped up and shot them.”
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Radford News Journal
Radford, Virginia, US
Thu, Sep 03, 1970
Page 7
Full Page
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