Guyanese relatives bury three children shot to death in Georgia
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Posted 9:13PM on Thursday, February 6, 2003
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA - Relatives buried three children Thursday who police said were shot to death by their father in the U.S. state of Georgia. <br>
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Police in suburban Atlanta responded to a domestic disturbance call on January 28, and found the three young boys shot to death, along with their Guyanese father, 33-year-old Ian Willabus and his second wife, 32-year-old Diane, also from Guyana. <br>
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Police said autopsies showed Ian Willabus had carried out the slayings and then turned the gun on himself. <br>
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Willabus, a freelance writer for CNN International, had brought the boys -- three-year-old Deion, five-year-old Damani, and ten-year-old Padraic -- in December to live with him and his wife in central DeKalb. <br>
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In a private ceremony Thursday, relatives and friends buried the boys in Mahaicony District, 35 miles east of Guyana's capital, Georgetown. <br>
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The boys' mother and Ian Willabus' first wife, 28-year-old Michelle Pierre-Willabus, consoled other relatives who broke down crying before the three coffins were lifted into a hearse. <br>
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It was unclear when and where Ian and Diane Willabus would be buried.