Boy, 12, charged with killing his mother and younger brother

From: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | Date: April 24, 2006 | Copyright information

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. - A 12-year-old boy described a neighbor as having a volatile temper appeared in juvenile court Monday on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his mother and younger brother. The victims were found beaten and stabbed to death Sunday morning in the family's apartment outside Washington.

Police said they found a metal bar, the kind normally used to secure a car's steering wheel to prevent theft, believed to have been used in the killings.

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