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TRINITY, TYRESE and TAI'ZAH HUGHES - 2. 4 and 6 yo- / Charged: Cody Cashion - New Albany, IN
by twinkletoes Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:29 am
18-year-old Indiana man charged with killing three children with a flare gun
Officials charged Cody Cashion, 18, with starting a fire in a New Albany home that killed Trinity Hughes, 2, Tyrese Hughes, 4, and Tai'zah Hughes, 6. A fourth child, Tatyana Hughes, suffered severe burns. Four days after he started the fire he was charged with attempted murder for crashing into a police vehicle.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 1:21 PM
AP Photo/Floyd County Jail/AP
Cody Cashion has been accused of firing a flare gun at a house, causing a fire that killed three young children.
A property dispute caused an 18-year-old man to shoot a flare gun unto a home that tragically killed three small children and severely burned a fourth, officials in New Albany, Ind., said Tuesday.
Days later, Cody Cashion was charged with attempted murder in an unrelated car crash with a police officer, and authorities were able to gather information tying him to the children's gruesome deaths.
Three children --Trinity Hughes, 2, Tyrese Hughes, 4, and Tai'zah Hughes, 6 -- were killed in the fire in a home on Ealy St. and Tatyana Hughes, 5, sustained life-altering and devastating injuries, Police Chief Sherri Knight said in a press conference to announce the charges, posted on the Louisville Courier-Journal's website.
He was charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of arson causing serious bodily injury, Esther Ragan, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, told the Daily News Wednesday. Tatyana Hughes is still hospitalized due to her injuries, she said.
On Jan. 4, Cashion drove by the house in New Albany and fired a flare gun from his vehicle into the home, alleges Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson, who said others may have been in the vehicle.
Cashion was motivated by a "property dispute or theft" with someone who lives in the home that Henderson would not identify. Cashion was motivated to retaliate against this person, but had no idea the damage he would cause, the prosecutor said.
"We have no indication that he believed the house was occupied or that there were children inside," he said.
AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Michael Dossett/AP
Police believe Cashion set fire to the home pictured because of a dispute with someone who lived there, but would not reveal who.
Officials have released few details on the investigation and said more charges could be forthcoming.
Cashion was being held in Clark County Jail on charges of attempted murder, resisting law enforcement and battery of an officer after a crash Friday in Clarksville, Ind., Ragan said.
In the incident, Cashion refused to pull over to an officer and crashed into a police vehicle.
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Cashion will be transferred to Floyd County to hear these charges, Ragan said.
Police investigating the incident found evidence linking Cashion to the Jan. 4 fire, Knight said, but no details were provided.
Fire officials originally believed the blaze was due to a space heater, but said a flare gun was consistent with what they found on the scene, Henderson said.
AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Michael Dossett/AP
Officials originally assumed the fire was caused by a space heater, but the scene fits police's theory of Cashion firing a flare gun.
Cashion also has outstanding warrants for theft and parole violation.
The Hughes family was at the press conference and was visibly shaken by the whole ordeal.
Grandmother Marie Hughes Clark told TV station WAVE in Louisville she had never heard of Cashion before the arrest.
"Who is he? And I wish I never had to now," she told the station.
Cashion's mother Sally Reed told the station he had problems with the law since grade school.
"Anger issues, I had him in counseling, he was in behavioral hospitals, more counseling, trying to keep him out of the juvenile system," she told the station. "Right now, I'd love to be able to go to that jail and just choke him."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-charged-killing-children-flare-gun-article-1.1580587#ixzz2qdNjx5yI
Officials charged Cody Cashion, 18, with starting a fire in a New Albany home that killed Trinity Hughes, 2, Tyrese Hughes, 4, and Tai'zah Hughes, 6. A fourth child, Tatyana Hughes, suffered severe burns. Four days after he started the fire he was charged with attempted murder for crashing into a police vehicle.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 1:21 PM
AP Photo/Floyd County Jail/AP
Cody Cashion has been accused of firing a flare gun at a house, causing a fire that killed three young children.
A property dispute caused an 18-year-old man to shoot a flare gun unto a home that tragically killed three small children and severely burned a fourth, officials in New Albany, Ind., said Tuesday.
Days later, Cody Cashion was charged with attempted murder in an unrelated car crash with a police officer, and authorities were able to gather information tying him to the children's gruesome deaths.
Three children --Trinity Hughes, 2, Tyrese Hughes, 4, and Tai'zah Hughes, 6 -- were killed in the fire in a home on Ealy St. and Tatyana Hughes, 5, sustained life-altering and devastating injuries, Police Chief Sherri Knight said in a press conference to announce the charges, posted on the Louisville Courier-Journal's website.
He was charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of arson causing serious bodily injury, Esther Ragan, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, told the Daily News Wednesday. Tatyana Hughes is still hospitalized due to her injuries, she said.
On Jan. 4, Cashion drove by the house in New Albany and fired a flare gun from his vehicle into the home, alleges Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson, who said others may have been in the vehicle.
Cashion was motivated by a "property dispute or theft" with someone who lives in the home that Henderson would not identify. Cashion was motivated to retaliate against this person, but had no idea the damage he would cause, the prosecutor said.
"We have no indication that he believed the house was occupied or that there were children inside," he said.
AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Michael Dossett/AP
Police believe Cashion set fire to the home pictured because of a dispute with someone who lived there, but would not reveal who.
Officials have released few details on the investigation and said more charges could be forthcoming.
Cashion was being held in Clark County Jail on charges of attempted murder, resisting law enforcement and battery of an officer after a crash Friday in Clarksville, Ind., Ragan said.
In the incident, Cashion refused to pull over to an officer and crashed into a police vehicle.
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Cashion will be transferred to Floyd County to hear these charges, Ragan said.
Police investigating the incident found evidence linking Cashion to the Jan. 4 fire, Knight said, but no details were provided.
Fire officials originally believed the blaze was due to a space heater, but said a flare gun was consistent with what they found on the scene, Henderson said.
AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Michael Dossett/AP
Officials originally assumed the fire was caused by a space heater, but the scene fits police's theory of Cashion firing a flare gun.
Cashion also has outstanding warrants for theft and parole violation.
The Hughes family was at the press conference and was visibly shaken by the whole ordeal.
Grandmother Marie Hughes Clark told TV station WAVE in Louisville she had never heard of Cashion before the arrest.
"Who is he? And I wish I never had to now," she told the station.
Cashion's mother Sally Reed told the station he had problems with the law since grade school.
"Anger issues, I had him in counseling, he was in behavioral hospitals, more counseling, trying to keep him out of the juvenile system," she told the station. "Right now, I'd love to be able to go to that jail and just choke him."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-charged-killing-children-flare-gun-article-1.1580587#ixzz2qdNjx5yI
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