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Roger Hanks was taken into custody Thursday night in East Marlborough Township after police discovered the bodies of his wife, Judith Hanks, 75, and his daughter, Emily Hanks, 37, dead from gunshot wounds. ....
Roger Lee Hanks has a long history with firearms. He was “born with a fishing rod and a gun in his hands,” the 76-year-old who state police allege shot and killed his wife and daughter in his East Marlborough home on Thursday, declared. He was familiar with gunsmithing, owned several firearms, hunted at the Bear Lodge Resort in rural Wyoming, and had even made his own ammunition. An Air Force veteran, Hanks served two tours in Vietnam and worked as a DuPont engineer before becoming a school teacher. “I am the best of the best,” he said in an interview […] ....
“The Defendant senselessly shot and killed his family because of a basic dispute. It is unfathomable," Chester County District Attorney Christopher L. de Barrena-Sarobe said ....
Hanks is now charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of third-degree murder, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, and possession of a weapon. ....