Melvin Keeling killed a 13 year old Katelind Caudill who confronted him about alleged sexual molestation of his step-daughter.
According to NBS 4, A 13-year-old Ohio girl, Katelind Caudill, was found shot to death in her bedroom who may have been killed for trying to help an abused friend. Melvin Keeling is also a suspect in death of convenience store clerks. What a truly sad story. Not only should the suspect not have been on the streets but Katelind Caudill should have been better protected.
A 13-year-old Ohio girl found shot to death in her bedroom may have been killed for trying to help an abused friend.
Relatives say Katelind Caudill had alerted authorities that her friend was being molested.
Police are now looking for her friend’s stepfather, Melvin Keeling. Officials say he’s also a suspect in the fatal shootings of two Indiana convenience store clerks a few hours after the teen’s body was found.
Katie Caudill’s dad said Keeling had threatened her and that police should have protected the 13-year-old, who was helping them in a child rape investigation against the accused killer, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported.
“(Keeling said), ‘You guys took my family, so I’m going to take yours,’” Charles Caudill told the station.
“I’m mad. Warren County did absolutely nothing about it,” Katie’s father said. “They had him and let him go. They should have held him knowing he had threatened my daughter and her sister. They should have had a cop or something patrolling there, but they didn’t.”
Keeling, of Deerfield Township, Ohio, also was wanted for questioning in the shooting death about 3 1/2 hours earlier of Katelind Caudill, 13, at her grandmother’s house about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati, authorities said.
According to the AP: Keeling was wanted on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition involving a child in an unrelated case, the Warren County sheriff’s office said.
A gunman shot and killed two women working at a northern Indiana convenience store Monday, and police were seeking a man who also was suspected of killing a teenage girl in Ohio.
Katelind Caudill is a hero for what she did and she paid with her life. God Bless you.
Katie’s father said he wasn’t surprised she would put her life on the line for a friend.
“She was nice and she would go out of her way to help anybody. She helped a friend out and ended up dead,” he said.
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