18-year-old Indiana man charged with killing three children with a flare gun

A property dispute caused an 18-year-old man to shoot a flare gun unto a home that tragically killed three small children and severely burned a fourth, officials in New Albany, Ind., said Tuesday. Days later, Cody Cashion was charged with attempted murder in an unrelated car crash with a police officer, and authorities were able to gather information tying him to the children's gruesome deaths. Three children --Trinity Hughes, 2, Tyrese Hughes, 4, and Tai'zah Hughes, 6 -- were killed in the fire in a home on Ealy St. and Tatyana Hughes, 5, sustained life-altering and devastating injuries, Police Chief Sherri Knight said in a press conference to announce the charges, posted on the Louisville Courier-Journal's website.

He was charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of arson causing serious bodily injury, Esther Ragan, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, told the Daily News Wednesday. Tatyana Hughes is still hospitalized due to her injuries, she said. On Jan. 4, Cashion drove by the house in New Albany and fired a flare gun from his vehicle into the home, alleges Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson, who said others may have been in the vehicle. Cashion was motivated by a "property dispute or theft" with someone who lives in the home that Henderson would not identify. Cashion was motivated to retaliate against this person, but had no idea the damage he would cause, the prosecutor said. "We have no indication that he believed the house was occupied or that there were children inside," he said.

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