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A New Hampshire mother despatched her husband a message minutes earlier than her teen brother-in-law allegedly shot her and her two younger sons to demise.
Prosecutors revealed 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney’s closing phrases to Sean Sweeney in court docket papers filed final week within the Aug. 3, 2022, triple homicide in Northfield.
The couple exchanged Snapchat movies and messages, together with of their younger sons, Benjamin, 4, and 23-month-old Mason.
“I hope they make you chortle,” she wrote at 10:49 a.m., which investigators imagine was her closing message to Sean. Lower than 10 minutes later, she and the boys had been every useless from a single gunshot wound to the pinnacle.
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Kassandra Sweeney, 25, and her two sons, Ben, 4, and 23-month-old Mason, had been allegedly shot to demise by her teen brother-in-law Aug. 3, 2022. (GoFundMe)
The small print had been in a movement filed by the New Hampshire State Lawyer’s Workplace asking that the 17-year-old accused killer, Eric Sweeney, proceed to be held with out bail, which a decide granted.
The ten-page doc revealed extra details about the horrific slayings than prosecutors or police have disclosed since Eric, then 16, was arrested the day of the crime.
Eric had been dwelling together with his older brother Sean, 26, and his household of their rural dwelling in picturesque Merrimack County, however tensions started to mount.
Sean referred to as the police in June and reported that his brother had stolen his Honda Civic. He referred to as once more on July 22 and stated that his brother was “making unusual feedback and had hidden a number of weapons across the dwelling.”
He instructed officers he was “involved for the protection of his babies,” based on the doc.
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Eric Sweeney, then 16, allegedly gunned down his nephews, Benjamin and Mason Sweeney, pictured, and their mother, Aug. 3, 2022, in New Hampshire. (Fb)
The brothers had been barely talking, and Sean grew so apprehensive he put in a lock on the door to his master suite.
He and his spouse needed Eric out of their dwelling and had begun taking steps to have him eliminated, based on the submitting.
On Aug. 3, Eric allegedly snapped. He eliminated one among Sean’s two weapons, a .40 Taurus handgun, from a locked secure, then allegedly gunned down his nephews and sister-in-law within the kitchen of the three-bedroom dwelling.
Prosecutors did not say in what order the victims had been killed, however a witness heard the screams of youngsters shortly earlier than Eric fled the house, suggesting their mom was shot first.
Kassandra was struck as soon as in her proper eyebrow, and each boys had been shot within the crown of their heads.
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The Northfield, N.H., dwelling the place Eric Sweeney allegedly shot his nephews and sister-in-law to demise Aug. 3, 2022. (Google Maps)
Sean, who drove an oil supply truck on the time, was on his route when Eric referred to as from Kassandra’s iPhone and claimed “somebody broke in and killed all of them.”
Shortly after police arrived, Sean pulled up, adopted by Eric behind the wheel of Kassandra’s silver Ford F-150.
In an interview with investigators, Eric stated he was within the basement when he heard one thing break, then a “deep, male voice yelling adopted by a number of ‘pops.'”
He instructed police he crept upstairs and “stepped over Kassandra and Mason’s our bodies” to exit the home, the movement says.
Though tree staff had been on the finish of the driveway, he did not ask them to name for assist.
He allegedly tossed the weapon from the driving force’s aspect window on I-93 earlier than returning to the home, based on the Merrimack Superior Court docket submitting.
Kassandra Sweeney and her boys, Benjamin, 4, and 23-month-old Mason. (Dignity Memorial)
A tree employee instructed police he heard “what he believed was screaming or yelling of younger kids” on the dwelling shortly earlier than he reported seeing Eric depart the property in Kassandra’s F-150.
He needed to take away site visitors cones positioned on the finish of the driveway to permit him to exit and noticed him return in the identical truck after police arrived, the doc says.
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Eric, who’s being tried as an grownup, has been indicted on three counts of first-degree homicide and one rely of falsifying bodily proof, based on court docket information.
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