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Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-31 11:06


Crime scene clean-up specialists wear protective gear Monday, March 30, 2009, as they remove plastic wrapped objects from the Milton, Mass., home where three siblings died, Saturday, March 28, 2009. [Agencies]

Then in December 2005, he was charged with carrying a firearm without a license after he tried to buy alcohol at a liquor store in Randolph. A store clerk called police when he saw a pistol magazine in Revelus' pocket, and police later found the magazine and a handgun in Revelus' waist band. He was sentenced to serve six months in jail, and was released in September 2008.

Investigators believe Revelus had been agitated since Friday night, when he got in a fistfight with a neighbor in this tony suburb that is also home to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

Revelus attacked his siblings with a kitchen knife on Saturday while their grandmother, who neighbors say lives on the first floor, was doing laundry in the basement, investigators said. The children's parents were not home.

Samantha Revelus called 911, but the dying girl quickly gave the phone to Saraphina, Milton police said.

Nolan said police will not release the 911 call.

"It's horrific. We'd be doing a tremendous disservice to the survivors if we released that. They don't need to listen to that," Nolan said.

Nolan said an officer patrolling the neighborhood arrived less than a minute after the 911 call and heard screaming inside the apartment. He kicked the door in and saw Revelus decapitate his 5-year-old sister.

As other officers arrived, Kerby ran into a bedroom and began to attack Saraphina. Two officers shot him, Nolan said.

The parents were still making final arrangements for Saturday's burials, Guerrier said.

"The reasons why it happened, what happened, how it happened is still just a blur to them," he said. "They can't even imagine it."

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