A family shot dead in an 'evil mass murder' have been pictured for the first time.
The Childs family were killed alongside pregnant mum Kiara Hawkins, 19, at a home in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Sunday.
Police believe Kezzie and Raymond Childs, both 42, and their children Rita, 13, and Elijah, 18, were gunned down in a targeted attack.
Detectives suspect multiple gunmen were involved in the 'evil mass murder'.
A boy who is believed to have suffered gunshot wounds in the attack called police to the scene and is still alive.
Speaking immediately after the shooting, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Randal Taylor said: "What we saw this morning was a different kind of evil.
"I myself am heartbroken.
"For the lives that have been taken too soon, for the young life that's forever been changed and for the life that never got the chance to start, for the neighborhood left to pick up the pieces in the wake of unprecedented violence.
"I’m angry that the perpetrators felt they had the right to commit this senseless act in our community.
"It has to stop. Our community doesn’t deserve this."
The city’s mayor Joe Hogsett called the attack "an act of depravity” that has “become all too common across the country”, the Indianapolis Star reports.
He said: “This morning, one or more individuals perpetrated an act of evil in our city. What happened this morning was not a simple act of gun violence.
“What happened this morning was a mass murder."
Reports say that the attack was one of five shootings to take place across the city in just five hours.
