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Maya Yang

Boy, 11, charged with murder in deaths of former Louisiana mayor and his daughter

Joe Cornelius Sr.
Joe Cornelius Sr. Photograph: City of Minden

An 11-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after the fatal shootings of a former Louisiana mayor and his daughter.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Jared McIver, police chief of Minden, a small town in north-west Louisiana, said that at about 6.30am on Sunday police responded to reports of a shooting inside a house on Austin Street, according to local reports.

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