45-year-old Shana Decree said everyone slain in the Pennsylvania home, including three children, „wanted to die,“ affidavit says
A mother accused along with her teen daughter of killing five family members in a Pennsylvania home Monday told authorities everyone in the home wanted to die, according to a probable cause affidavit. Shana Decree, 45, and 19-year-old Dominique Decree are charged with five counts of criminal homicide and a conspiracy count. The victims were discovered after a caseworker conducting a welfare check found the mother and daughter „disoriented“ and five people dead in the Morrisville apartment Monday, the document says.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub identified the victims as Shana Decree’s two other children, 25-year-old Naa’Irah Smith and 13-year-old Damon Decree Jr.; Shana Decree’s sister, 42-year-old Jamilla Campbell; and Campbell’s 9-year-old twin daughters, Imani and Erika Allen.
A visibly shaken Weintraub said Tuesday authorities are still trying to piece together a motive and how the killings were carried out. He said investigators are considering the possibility the slayings were part of an attempted murder-suicide. He said he couldn’t speak to the statements allegedly made by Shana Decree as outlined in the affidavit.
