Photo: Damon Decree Jr./Facebook
Two weeks before she and her adult daughter allegedlymurdered five relatives including her 13-year-old son, a Pennsylvania woman removed the teen boy from the local school system, according to reports.
According toCNN,CBS, andUSA Today, Shana Decree withdrew the teen, Damon Decree Jr., from classes earlier this month.
Decree, 45, told Superintendent Jason Harris of the Morrisville School District he would not be returning and that she would follow up with him on a plan for Damon’s education.
According to Harris, Decree said she planned to homeschool the boy but never did.
Instead, police allege she and her daughter, Dominique Decree, 19, murdered Shana’s two children, Damon and Naa’Irah Smith, 25, along with her sister, Jamilla Campbell, 42, and Campbell’s 9-year-old twin daughters, Imani and Erika Allen.
Relatives have said the mother and daughter may have been indoctrinated into an unspecified online religious group.
Shana and Dominique Decree are both being held without bail after being charged with five counts of criminal homicide along with a single count of conspiracy.
Dominique and Shana Decree.Bucks Co DA’s Office
Neither defendant has entered a plea to the charges, and it was unclear Friday if they had retained attorneys.
The five bodies were found during a welfare check on a Morrisville apartment Monday afternoon. Investigators have yet to reveal the causes of death for the five victims, saying only that at least one victim was strangled.
Police are still working to determine when the killings occurred.
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According to police, Campbell’s 17-year-old son, Joshua Campbell, was not home when the violence began.
Investigators allege that initially, Shana and Dominique Decree denied having any involvement in the killings, telling cops Campbell’s boyfriend and two other men broke into the apartment and slaughtered the five victims.
source: people.com
