2 Women Found Slain in Neb. Basement
Pastor Dale Morgan
2 Women Found Slain in Neb. Basement*
AP
OMAHA, Neb. - A man killed two women and left their bodies in the
basement of a house, then beat and raped the daughter of one of the
victims in the same home, authorities and a relative of the victims said.
Fabian Hands, 46, was booked on two counts of homicide and two counts of
use of a weapon to commit a felony.
Officers were called to the house in north Omaha Monday night. When they
arrived, a 20-year-old woman came out of a bedroom and said she had been
sexually assaulted. Hands followed her out of the bedroom and assaulted
her in front of officers, according to a police report. Officers subdued
him and took him into custody.
Police found the bodies of the woman's 36-year-old mother and
48-year-old aunt in the basement during a search of the house,
authorities said. Paramedics pronounced the women dead at the scene.
The woman who reported she had been sexually assaulted was taken to a
hospital.
The cousin of the assault victim told Omaha television station KMTV that
Hands was the 36-year-old woman's boyfriend. The cousin said the
20-year-old told police that she was beaten and raped after Hands killed
her mom and aunt.
Police have not said how the women were killed, but the cousin said they
were shot. It wasn't immediately known how long their bodies had been in
the basement, who was living in the house, who had called police or
whether additional charges would be filed against Hands.
A representative at the Omaha jail said Hands did not have an attorney
on record and declined to put Hands on the phone.