{"id":134805,"date":"2024-12-08T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T11:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134805"},"modified":"2024-12-08T18:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T11:34:54","slug":"man-allegedly-shot-son-after-mistaking-him-for-an-intruder-then-cremated-his-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134805","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly shot son after mistaking him for an intruder, then &#8216;cremated&#8217; his body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HOUSTON (WKRC) &#8211; A father allegedly shot and killed his son with down syndrome after mistaking him for an intruder, and later &#8220;cremated&#8221; his body before calling 911.<\/p>\n<p>68-year-old Michael C. Howard called the Sabine County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Monday evening to report a &#8220;horrible accident,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>Howard allegedly told police that he had shot his 20-year-old son, who had down syndrome, with a shotgun after mistaking him for an intruder, according to Sabine County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Deputy J.P. MacDonough. <\/p>\n<p>MacDonough said Howard did not call 911 to report the death until 17 hours after he used a tractor to drag his son&#8217;s body for two miles across his 2,500 acres of land to a pile of wood trash.<\/p>\n<p>Howard then placed his son&#8217;s body on the pile before lighting it on fire, &#8220;cremating&#8221; the corpse, according to MacDonough.<\/p>\n<p>Howard said he &#8220;cremated his son in accordance with what he felt his son would have wanted,&#8221; authorities said. MacDonough had other ideas about Howard&#8217;s motive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a bizarre crime anywhere you are just because of the nature of the event,&#8221; said MacDonough. &#8220;Mr. Howard committed this act and in the furtherance of that, burned the body and cleaned the crime scene, which as an investigator, I would take as indicative of nefarious purposes or for nefarious purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Howard called police two days before the shooting to report someone had stolen a mower and trailer from his property, according to <em>The Associated Press<\/em>, but MacDonough did not comment on whether or not he believed that incident influenced MacDonough&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>Howard was charged with murder and tampering with evidence, but authorities said more charges could be added after further investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/nation-world\/father-shot-killed-son-intruder-mistake-mistaking-cremated-body-burned-accident-arrest-police-trial-corpse-down-syndrome-sheriff-family-mistaken-break-in-robber-robbery-thief-shotgun-gun-shooting-weapon-fire\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (WKRC) &#8211; A father allegedly shot and killed his son with down syndrome after mistaking him for an intruder, and later &#8220;cremated&#8221; his body before calling 911. 68-year-old Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134805\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}