A prosecutor says it is likely she will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing five adults in a south Alabama home.
Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich told The Associated Press on Tuesday that “by all appearances at this point” the mass killing will be a death penalty case. She said no final decision has been reached, as the investigation is still in its early stages.
Derrick Dearman of Leakesville, Mississippi, is charged with six counts of capital murder and two counts of kidnapping.
The bodies of all five people were found Saturday inside the home in Citronelle, Alabama. A sheriff’s captain says Dearman attacked them as they slept, then abducted his estranged girlfriend and an infant from the home. Both of them were found alive.
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