JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Thursday before convicting a suburban Chicago man of fatally shooting his wife and three children during what he told them was a road trip to a water park.
Christopher Vaughn shot his family, including one of his daughters as she clutched a stuffed animal, because he saw them as obstacles to his dream of starting a new, isolated life in the Canadian wilderness, prosecutors told jurors before they withdrew to deliberate.
Vaughn hunched forward as jurors re-entered the Joliet courtroom, but the 37-year-old computer specialist displayed no visible emotion as their verdict was read.
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