Police had been called before to site of Henry County killings

<p>Police had been called before to a home that later became the sight of a New Year's Day slaughter in which authorities say a man killed his three children and himself.</p><p>Officers found the bodies of Jean Pierre-Louis and his three children in the home Sunday after a standoff that began after his wife ran to a neighbor's home saying he had pistol-whipped her.</p><p>"I don't know what causes these types of things," Locust Grove police Chief Jesse Patton said. "It could have been the holidays, but I know there had been some domestic incidents there."</p><p>On Dec. 8, Locust Grove police arrested Pierre-Louis, 27, on simple battery and obstruction charges, stemming from a domestic dispute at the home. Pierre-Louis shoved a police officer while talking to his wife and refused to heed the officer's order to get out of his car, an arrest affidavit says.</p><p>He also threatened to run over the officer, the affidavit said.</p><p>Next-door neighbor Latrice Austin said she knew the couple was having problems. Pierre-Louis said he could not imagine a future without his family, she said Tuesday.</p><p>"He didn't want to live his life without his wife or his children," Austin said.</p><p>Still, Austin said she was surprised by the killings.</p><p>On Sunday, police said, Pierre-Louis pistol-whipped his wife, Trina Pierre-Louis, after a dispute. She then ran to a neighbor's home while he barricaded his family in their home.</p><p>Police spent hours trying to talk Pierre-Louis out of the house. But investigators say he shot his children, Gabrielle, Xavier and Malakai before fatally wounding himself.</p><p>The couple had been married about seven years. Both had served in the Army, according to public records.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cdbee0)</p>