Fox NewsPRINCESS ANNE, Md. – A man and his seven children found dead in their Maryland home Monday were poisoned by carbon monoxide from a generator they were using after the power company cut off their electricity, a couple who identified themselves as the man’s mother and stepfather said.
Police found the bodies at the home in Princess Anne after being contacted by a concerned co-worker of the father, who had not been seen for days, Princess Anne police said in a news release.
They identified the deceased only as an adult and seven young people ages 6 to the teens. They said the cause of the deaths was still under investigation.
Bonnie and Lloyd Edwards, encountered outside the home by a reporter from The Associated Press, identified themselves as the mother and stepfather of Rodney Todd, 36, whom they identified as the adult who died. They said Todd had seven children, including five girls and two boys. The Edwardses said police told them the family died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Bonnie Edwards identified the children as boys Cameron Todd, 13, and Zycheim Todd, 7; and girls Tynijuiza Todd, 15; Tykira Todd, 12; Tybree Todd, 10; Tyania Todd, 9; and Tybria Todd, 6.
Lloyd Edwards said when police told them Todd had died, “It was disbelief.”
“It’s so hard. How can you understand something like that?”
He said Delmarva Power had cut off the electricity to the house because of an outstanding bill.
“To keep his seven children warm, (Todd) bought a generator,” Lloyd Edwards said. “It went out and the carbon monoxide consumed them.”
Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller told the AP there was a generator in the kitchen that was out of gasoline.
Matt Likovich, a spokesman for Delmarva Power, would not say Monday night whether the power had been cut off. He said the matter was being investigated.
Bonnie Edwards described her son as a loving, caring young man who set an example for his children. “I don’t know anyone his age who would have done what he did” for his children, she said. “I was so proud to say he took care of seven kids.”
Todd was a utility worker at the nearby University of Maryland Eastern Shore, said his supervisor Stephanie Wells. Wells, who hadn’t seen Todd since March 28, said she went to the house Monday morning and knocked on the door, but no one answered. She then filed a missing-person report with police.
Princess Anne is located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/07/adult-and-7-children-found-dead-in-maryland-home-police-say/
The statement and entire story, makes no sense AT ALL….
paraphrasing here –>”The Generator went out, and the carbon monoxide consumed them”
1- if the generator “WENT OUT” There would be NO combustion to produce carbon monoxide, so they wouldnt have died from carbon monoxide poisoning
2- was he running the generator in the house ?
3- if the generator was running OUTSIDE the home, it would be next to impossible to succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning. Short of piping the exhaust directly into the house or room with closed doors and no ventilation.
yeah, Farmer… that bothered me too, but it also says there was one in the kitchen.
The only way this makes sense is if one generator that was powering a carbon monoxide detector “went out”, and another kept going, but there’s nothing in the article that suggests that.
My complaint is that this was written by a “professional” journalist working for FOX news, who doesn’t even understand the basics of journalism or English, and it was probably also seen by at least one editor before it was published, so there are a few morons to blame for this stupidity.
He said Delmarva Power had cut off the electricity to the house because of an outstanding bill….. “To keep his seven children warm, (Todd) bought a generator,”
Must have been some bill if it was cheaper to buy a generator than to just pay it.
Remember in one of the previous threads, I said: KIDS = DEBT, this country is now not “kid friendly” anymore? Profits are more important than people?
That’s a running joke I have: I quote myself. Can you do that? lol 🙂 nuthin’????
Sounds like it was running inside the house. Probably kept it inside so nobody would know he was using a generator for power. Since everyone is an informant on their neighbors now days, a generator running outside a house would certainly trigger a call to CPS followed up by a raid full of shootings. After they all suffocated the generator eventually ran out of gas.
So either way it looks like those kids were already doomed once the guy couldn’t afford to pay for power anymore.
How can people be do stupid? I am sorry that children have died but WTF? Even an idiot should know you don’t run a generator inside because you will die. Unless it was a family murder/suicide thing.
I know I don’t sound very compassionate but it (at least in AU) seems more and more like the average person is lobotomised in the womb. The average person now seems just so dense.