Father's convictions come to light as he becomes person of interest in daughter's death
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"She was a kind soul and this hurts so much that she died less than a mile, mile and a half away from where her brother died," said a supporter of Foster's.
In 2006, T
he Washington Post reported Banks' son and daughter were living with a classmate's family.
On Nov. 19, 1991
The Washington Post reported Banks, "...went to the house and found his 17-year-old son, Lawrence Foster, who had broken his leg and was home recovering."
A prosecutor told the Post, "Banks chased his hobbled son through the house as the youth apparently ran for an alarm system where he might have been able to press a panic button."
"Banks shot the boy as he crouched in a corner of the kitchen." It caused Banks' daughter to change her name.
"Her name was Mylane. It was changed to Dominique because of what he did to her brother," someone close to Foster said.
According to the Post, Banks was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years.
Online court records show Banks pleaded guilty to another second-degree murder charge in May 1993, and was sentenced to 20 years for that crime.
The Post reported that those sentences ran concurrently and Banks was released in October 2002.
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Convictions of father come to light as he becomes person of interest in daughter's death