Axe Used In Slaughter of 5

An Alabama sheriff says the suspect in the slaughter of five adults was armed with an axe as he attacked them in their sleep, using the weapon to strike one of his first victims in a reclining chair and then moving through the house to assault the others. Mobile county sheriff Sam Cochran says derrick Dearman overpowered the victims in the axe attacks, and then used guns from inside the house to shoot them. Court records state that an axe and gun were used to kill each victim in Saturday’s rampage in the south Alabama town of Citronelle. Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, is charged with six counts of capital murder and two counts of kidnapping. Authorities say Dearman Abducted his estranged girlfriend and an infant from the home after the killings, both were found alive.