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Terrified and her voice quivering, the 7-year-old girl cowered in a bloody bedroom, under a blanket near her mother's body, begging a 9-1-1 dispatcher for help.
"My mom is dead, and I'm the only one in the house . . . My brother shot my mommy," the girl said. "He walked into the room, and he left . . . and we didn't know where he was, and he came back and shot at us."
Her 18-year-old half brother, Matthew Wayne Almand, confessed to killing his stepmother and father at the family's secluded mobile home near Melbourne. He told investigators he shot his father and left him to die on the front steps. Then he went inside and shot his stepmother.
A recording of the sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes anxious 12 minutes between the girl and the dispatcher was released Wednesday, revealing clues to the sequence of events that led to the deaths of Rodney Almand and Jacqueline Almand -- the girl's parents.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/NEWS01/512010343/1006
"My mom is dead, and I'm the only one in the house . . . My brother shot my mommy," the girl said. "He walked into the room, and he left . . . and we didn't know where he was, and he came back and shot at us."
Her 18-year-old half brother, Matthew Wayne Almand, confessed to killing his stepmother and father at the family's secluded mobile home near Melbourne. He told investigators he shot his father and left him to die on the front steps. Then he went inside and shot his stepmother.
A recording of the sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes anxious 12 minutes between the girl and the dispatcher was released Wednesday, revealing clues to the sequence of events that led to the deaths of Rodney Almand and Jacqueline Almand -- the girl's parents.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/NEWS01/512010343/1006