Charles Broomfield has been charged with murder in the deaths of his fiancée Jacqueline Neill and her sons 13-year-old Michael and 15-year-old Cameron Kilpatrick.
The teens were students at Kenowa Hills Public Schools.
The three were found shot to death around 8 o’clock Tuesday morning inside a home on Worden Street in southeast Grand Rapids.
Court records show Broomfield called 9-1-1 to report that two men had broken in, killed his fiancée and her sons, but spared him and his five-year-old son.
Police say evidence failed to support that claim and Broomfield later confessed to the killings.
He is now charged with three counts of first-degree premeditated murder and three counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The homicide charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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