GUILTY CO - Desirea French, 8, shot to death, Pueblo County, 10 April 2011

[MorenoI]

http://www.9news.com/news/article/192827/346/Girl-found-dead-father-wounded-in-Pueblo-home-

The Pueblo Chieftain reports that the body of Desirea French was found inside her home Sunday night. Her father, John French Jr., was found wounded in another room.

http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/child-found-dead-in-pueblo/

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/27502632/detail.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42532471/ns/local_news-colorado_springs_co/

 

[hopingicanhelp]

http://www.kansas.com/2011/04/19/1813656/girl-killed-while-with-dad-in.html

"Authorities allege that Desirea's 32-year-old father, John French Jr., shot her once in the head and shot himself twice in an attempted suicide."

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/04/19/1813656/girl-killed-while-with-dad-in.html#ixzz1JzmVDRkI

 

[peeples]

WOw.. shot himself in the head and made it out alive.. i wish the little girl could have as well....

The court document says sheriff's officers found her father lying face down on a bed with what appeared to be one or two gunshot wounds to his head, and telling a sheriff's lieutenant: "I don't want to be here anymore."

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/04/19/1813656/girl-killed-while-with-dad-in.html#ixzz1JzqJrkYG

 

[MorenoI]

WOW, thanks for the info. I orginally wrote about this story on April 11. I was wondering if there had been any updates.

 

[OkieGranny]

From March 2013:

http://www.chiefads.com/news/local/...cle_c062be7e-9193-11e2-9f9f-0019bb2963f4.html

As he did through much of his first-degree murder trial, John Wesley French Jr. stared off into the distance as a guilty verdict was reached for each of his three charges stemming from the death of his daughter.

French, 34, was immediately sentenced to life in prison without parole, a mandatory term for the first-degree murder charge.