<div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-0"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">A 21-year-old Indianapolis man who fatally shot four family members and a brother’s pregnant girlfriend in 2021, after his father reprimanded him for staying out late, was sentenced on Tuesday to 360 years in prison, according to court records and local news reports.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The man, Raymond Childs III, was 17 when he used a handgun to kill his father, Raymond Childs Jr., 42; his stepmother, Kezzie Childs, 42; his brother, Elijah Childs, 18; his sister, Rita Childs, 13; and his brother’s pregnant girlfriend, Kiara Hawkins, 19. A younger brother of Mr. Childs survived the shooting and left the home to get help.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Childs was arrested one day after the shooting, which occurred in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 2021.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The police said they had <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/indianapolis-shooting.html" title="">received reports</a> of a person shot on the eastern side of Indianapolis around 4 a.m. When officers arrived, they found one of Mr. Childs’s brothers with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=973379674823443&amp;set=pcb.973379871490090" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">news release</a> from Marion County prosecutors. That brother, who survived, identified Raymond Childs III as the shooter and directed police officers to the family’s home on Adams Street, where they found the five bodies.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-1"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-1"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Childs turned the gun on his family after his father told him that he would punish him for breaking curfew, according to <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/indianapolis-man-who-mercilessly-murdered-6-family-members-gets-360-years-in-prison/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0ohwQQTn4KerHGaaqAUd6bKYyxfyVDiL7ICZT1G8l3hFY6JxLbMvpd2_E_aem_vuAiNIp0shJYzcYS-8O3qg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Fox 59</a>, a local Fox affiliate.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Ray Casanova, a lawyer representing Mr. Childs, said in an email that Mr. Childs’s father had contacted his son to tell him to return home from his girlfriend’s house after leaving without permission. When he returned home, Mr. Childs apologized, Mr. Casanova said. Mr. Casanova also said that it was a particularly violent household. “What should have been a place of nurture was instead a place of violence, abuse, and neglect,” he said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">At his sentencing on Tuesday, Mr. Childs maintained his innocence. “I’m not no killer, I’m not no murderer, I’m not no bad person,” he said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In a five-day trial in October, Mr. Childs was convicted of six counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of carrying a handgun without a license. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of 55 years for each person killed, plus another 55 years for Ms. Hawkins’ fetus, and 30 years on the attempted murder charge.</p><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-small css-nss59b e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-zgakxe erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:257.77777777777777px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">Raymond Childs III.</span><span class="css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, via Associated Press</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">An earlier trial ended in a mistrial after a witness confronted Mr. Childs from the stand, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://apnews.com/article/indianapolis-shootings-mistrial-c8eb3d8e0404434da25d703c8e40ed1a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">The Associated Press</a> reported.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-3"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-2"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Shortly after the shooting in 2021, the city’s mayor, Joe Hogsett, called the bloodshed “an act of evil” and a mass murder that brought terror to the community. There were at least three <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/17/us/indianapolis-fedex-shooting/indianapolis-has-endured-three-mass-shootings-this-year?smid=url-share" title="">mass shootings</a> in Indianapolis in 2021, including one in which eight people were killed and seven were injured in a <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/us/shooting-fedex.html" title="">FedEx warehouse</a>.</p><p class="css-798hid etfikam0">Kirsten Noyes<!-- --> contributed research.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="RelatedLinksBlock-5"><div data-testid="lazy-loader"></div></div>