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.
