Father Jailed in Girls’ Deaths
An accountant was jailed Thursday on charges of fatally shooting his 6- and 9-year-old daughters as he argued on the phone with his ex-wife.
The mother heard the older girl say “No, Daddy! No!” before hearing gunshots, police said.
The bodies of Liberty Battaglia and her older sister, Faith, were found in a pool of blood Wednesday inside their father’s downtown loft apartment, police Sgt. Filiberto X. Carrillo said.
John David Battaglia, 45, was arrested about 3 a.m. Battaglia had been at a tattoo parlor, where he had two flowers inked on his arm symbolizing the daughters, officers said.
Police also detained a female friend of Battaglia and removed seven rifles from his apartment.
Battaglia was booked on two counts of capital murder and was being held on $3-million bond, Dallas County sheriff’s officers said.
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