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Monday, November 12, 2012

John Devine 6 years Old & Jon'Tee Devine 5 Years Old

John Devine and Jon'Tee Devine

Jon'Tee and John Devine
 
 
 
Shot to Death
 
The father of two young boys confessed to shooting their mother to death in the great room of her Pleasure Ridge Park home early Sunday morning, then going upstairs to their bedroom and killing his sons as they slept, police said Tuesday.
John Devine, 35, shot himself in the chest after the slayings, said Lt. Barry Wilkerson, commander of the Louisville Metro Police Homicide Unit.
Devine is currently in University Hospital, where he is being guarded by police until he is well enough to be booked into Jefferson Metro Corrections on three counts of murder and one count of burglary, Wilkerson said.
 
 
Mother, 2 sons shot to death in PRP
by Johnny Archer WHAS11.com
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 1:41 PM
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- A woman and her two young sons were found shot to death inside a Pleasure Ridge Park home early Sunday morning.
The woman and her two sons were identified as 26-year-old Sade Goldsmith, six-year-old John Devine, Jr. and five-year-old Jon'tee Devine. The official cause of death will not be released until Monday, when the autopsies are complete.

“It’s mind blowing,” said David McPhail, who lives near the shooting. “[It’s] mind blowing and sad.”

The Crime Scene Unit along with Metro homicide detectives filled the 6100 block of Maravian Drive off the Greenbelt Highway. Caution tape blocked off the home where neighbors say the victims moved in recently.

“They’ve only lived there a couple of weeks as far as I know,” said one neighbor, Tracie Julius. “The people that lived there previously, I know them. I worked with the woman. They’ve been gone probably a year.”
Family says 36-year-old John Devine, who was also shot, is at University Hospital in critical, but stable, condition at this time. According to family, he is the father of the two boys who were shot and killed.
The four people were found shot just before 6 a.m. Sunday in a neighborhood that locals say is generally peaceful.

“It’s quiet around here,” said McPhail. “Nothing goes on. Nothing happens.

McPhail says he saw the two boys playing just a few days ago.

“My cousin had told me what happened and I was shocked because I saw them playing outside the day before yesterday,” said McPhail. “And now they’re gone. It’s crazy."
Police are not commenting on a possible motive and are not ruling out any possibilities. They say they are not looking for any suspects.
 
 
Father admits to murdering family, confesses after surviving shooting self in chest
 
by Renee Murphy WHAS11.com
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:04 PM
   
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Police have charged John Devine with murder and burglary in the PRP triple murder.
At the LMPD press conference held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., police say John Devine has been charged with three counts of murder and one of count burglary in the PRP triple murder case.
Police say Devine broke in and shot his ex-girlfriend Sade Goldsmith and their 6-year-old son John and their 5-year-old son Jon'tee over the weekend.

"The anger built up and it was just one moment where it occurred. He didn't go into great detail of all the specifics in the interrogation interview," said Lt. Barry Wilkerson, LMPD Homicide Commander.

The children were sleeping upstairs when they were shot.
"It appears Ms. Goldsmith was shot in the front door. He made entry through the back door. She was found in the great room area and the two children were up in the bedroom area," said Wilkerson.

Police say Devine shot himself in the chest after killing his family. He survived and confessed to police.

Goldsmith's family believed Devine was behind the crimes.

Police say Devine and Goldsmith had a history of domestic violence.

Neighbor's tell WHAS that Goldsmith recently got an alarm system for her house, that's how police were first alerted to the shootings.

Devine is still in the hospital and police are not sure when he will be released to jail.
 
 
Charges filed in triple slaying in Louisville
Posted: 07/18/2012  By: Associated Press
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville police say a man has been charged with fatally shooting his two boys and their mother.

Police spokeswoman Officer Carey Klain said Tuesday that 36-year-old John Devine is charged with three murder counts and one count of burglary. Devine is accused of breaking into a home in south Louisville early Sunday and killing the boys and their mother.

Officers found the bodies of 26-year-old Sade Goldsmith and her children, 6-year-old John Devine Jr. and 5-year-old Jon'Tee Devine. Police say they found John Devine with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Devine underwent surgery and remains hospitalized.

Police say Devine broke into the back door and shot Goldsmith by the front door near the living room.

Police say he then went upstairs and shot the boys while they were in bed together.


 
 
 
Man accused of killing ex-girlfriend, 2 children appears in court
by WHAS11 WHAS11.com
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM
   
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- For the first time a Louisville mother came face to face with the man accused of killing her daughter and young grandchildren.

John Devine was in court Monday morning and was greeted by the victim's family.

Louisville mother Donna Kaye held up pictures of her 6-year-old and 5-year-old grandsons. When Devine looked back that was the first thing he saw.

Kaye says it's something she plans to do at every court appearance. These are the most recent pictures of 6-year-old John Devine Junior and 5-year-old Jontee. Brothers till the end.
 

 
 

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