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Cops detail Texas family killings

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Published: March. 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM

EMORY, Texas, March 4 (UPI) -- Texas investigators say a teenager told them he was promised $2,000 to help kill his 16-year-old girlfriend's family.

Sheriff's detectives in Emory, Texas, said Charles Wilkerson, 19, also told them that the girl waited in a car with a friend while Wilkerson and Charles Waid slipped into the her home and killed her mother and two brothers in their beds last weekend.

"The discussion to kill (her) parents had been ongoing for about a month," said the report on the interrogation of Wilkerson. She was allegedly angry that her folks refused to allow her to date Wilkerson and had confiscated her cell phone.

The Tyler, Texas, Morning Telegraph said Wilkerson also reportedly told deputies that the girl had tipped him to the location of valuables in the house that were allegedly taken in the course of the attack.

Wilkerson and Waid allegedly set fire to the house before they fled.

The girl's father survived the attack and was recovering Tuesday from a gunshot wound to the head at a Tyler hospital, the Telegraph said.

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