Mass. man beheads 5-year-old sister, fatally stabs 2nd sister, is shot dead while hunting 3rd
A man fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then turned towardhis 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot himdead in what their chief described as “a killing field.”
There was no clear motive for the events that unfolded Saturday, theday after the 5-year-old’s birthday, in a tony Boston suburb that alsois home to Gov. Deval Patrick. But there was no doubt about the carnagewrought by 23-year-old Kerby Revelus against his sisters in thetwo-family home they shared with their parents and grandmother.
Five-year-old Bianca was killed as a cake for her birthday, whichinvestigators believe was Friday, sat on the kitchen table.Nine-year-old Sarafina dialed 911 and watched police shoot her brotheras her elder sister, 17-year-old Samantha, lay dead on the floor.
“In policing, we see the raw human emotion every day, but to think thata human being could afflict such an atrocious, violent act on his ownfamily is unbelievable,” Milton police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. said.”When I walked up to the first officer (on the scene), I could see thewhole story right in his face. This just told me that this wassomething very bad.”