CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO: Chad Doerman who allegedly killed his three young sons, Clayton Doerman, seven, Hunter Doerman, four, and Chase Doerman, three, at their home was indicted on Thursday, June 22. Talking about the gruesome murder, Clermont County Prosecutor David Gast said, "This was the man that every day they woke up looking to for protection, love, and guidance in all things."
"He was their world, he was their guardian and he executed them in cold blood," Gast added. On June 15, Clermont County sheriff's deputies responded to Doerman's house in Monroe Township at around 4.30 pm after they received several 911 calls, according to Daily Mail.
'Her babies had been shot'
The first emergency call came from the children's mother screaming that "her babies had been shot." Following the incident, the suspect's teenage stepdaughter desperately sought help as she ran out to the street. "She said her stepfather is killing everybody in her house. I asked her to get in the car with me but she said she couldn’t leave her family," said the caller. Another 911 caller told the deputies that he saw two children being shot outside of their house.
Prosecutors said Doerman plotted the killings
Doerman who lined the three children up before fatally shooting them with a rifle planned out the killings. He allegedly shot his youngest son Hunter twice in the head and then "gunned down" Clayton, seven, who tried getting out of the house by running into the yard, according to prosecutors. The suspect took away Chase, three, from his mother's arms and shot him to death. While attempting to protect her children, mother of the three boys was also shot in the hand.
The dispatcher's body camera footage showed Doerman not resisting the arrest and according to investigators, he confessed to planning the murders after he was placed under custody. Though the first responders tried to perform CPR on the three boys, they were all pronounced dead at the scene. "They held these children knowing there was nothing they could do. How do you unsee that sort of abomination?" Gast said.
Prosecutor wants Doerman to face the death penalty
Outside the courthouse in Ohio, prosecutor Mark Tekulve who talked to the reporters about how the suspect "slaughtered his three children in the most brutal fashion you can imagine" said that his "goal is to have this man executed for slaughtering these three little boys."
"It is an incomprehensible act of horror that he perpetrated on this family," Tekulve added. If found guilty of Doerman's charges of assault, kidnapping, and aggravated murder for the June 15 killings, he could face the death penalty.
