reports. According to prosecutors, Stokes spared his 3-year-old grandson who witnessed the shootings.
An officer who arrived at the scene found Stokes sitting outside the house steps. When the cop asked if he heard gunshots, Stokes replied, “Yeah, I didn’t hear them, I did them.”
Police found the bodies of five people in the home and a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun on the floor of a bedroom.
In addition to the reckless homicide charges, Stokes, who has a history of domestic violence convictions and other crimes and was set on fire by a sibling as a teen according to his lawyer, was also charged with one count of possessing a firearm.