5 Year Old Makes Grisly Discovery

"Mount Washington, KY - A five-year-old walks into his home after school and finds a family tragedy.

"A man is dead and a 16-year-old boy is wounded inside a home in the 300 block of Choctaw Court, northeast of Mount Washington. It happened in a home in Cedar Ridge Estates, a subdivision just the other side of the county line from Louisville.

"Police say the child found his father dead in the living room hallway, while his 16-year-old stepbrother lay barely alive in a bedroom. Bullitt County officers were investigating whether tensions between a man and his stepson escalated to what they called an attempted murder-suicide.

"`It looked like some type of argument between the father and the stepson. The father went and got a handgun and shot the son, we believe, and then shot himself,` said Chief Deputy Danny Thompson.

"Thompson said officers found the man lying in the living room hallway with the handgun still in his grasp. The stepson lay gravely wounded in a bedroom.

"The 16-year-old is listed in `stable, but guarded condition` after medics flew him to University Hospital and undergoing surgery, according to Thompson.

"His mother, also the man's wife, apparently was at work.

"`She knew they had some problems, but she thought that they'd worked it out. They went to some counseling, and she thought they were getting along better. But obviously something fired today and things went bad,` said Thompson.

"`The neighbors here said they were very quiet people. The mother worked at Humana. Very nice lady. They said the man was very cordial. The kids were nice. It's just something unsuspected by any of the neighbors,` said Thompson.

"Police have not released the names of those involved.

"Neighbors said the 16-year-old attends Bullitt East High School. They said the family has lived in the subdivision about two years."

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