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Argument leads to killings
ADDY, Stevens County - An argument over firewood left William Lembcke, 16, facing four counts of aggravated first-degree murder, accused of killing his parents, his older sister and his younger brother.
Lembcke's confession provided the motive, according to court papers.
The account in the confession is chilling:
"The defendant told the officers his dad was mad at him for not helping get firewood, and then the defendant got mad, and when his dad went into the shower, he loaded the guns," the affidavit of probable cause says.
The victims were all shot in the head at close range sometime between Dec.
22 and 26.
"Shortly after the defendant armed himself, he shot his dad in the hallway, then he shot his mother in the kitchen, then his sister in the living room and his brother in the living room as he was lying on the floor," the affidavit says.
Robert Lembcke, 49, and Wesley Lembcke, 12, suffered "contact" wounds, meaning the rifle was placed directly a
