Solaine Thornton, 11, died in the arms of her mother, Rachel, who appears to have carried her to a grassy hollow and tried to shield her, despite being hit in the neck and back.
Adrian Thornton was put in an induced coma after being shot in the head by Dirk Raats, 71, in Saint-Herbot, Brittany. The bullet lodged in the 52-year-old s brain.
The devastated family of an 11-year-old British girl, who was gunned down by an angry neighbour, had just received their passports for a trip to the UK to visit relatives.
Neighbours have said that Dirk Raats, a Dutch national, had threatened the family with guns before and that he and his wife had made the sign couic , or slitting of the throat, at them.
Dutch neighbour Dirk Raats, 71, has been formally charged with 11-year-old Solaine Thornton s murder and the attempted murder of her parents Adrian and Rachael in France.