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Vassia Barba

Soldier shoots own children, 5 and 6, dead as they slept before killing himself

A former soldier walked into his ex-wife's house and shot his own children dead in their beds before killing himself in a frantic shooting on Tuesday night.

Charles Slacks Jr. and the children's mother were divorced, however, he still had a key to the mother's home in Sumter, South Carolina.

Slacks reportedly let himself into the home around 10pm on Tuesday, when an Army co-worker of the woman was also present in the home.

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