BURLINGAME, Kan. | A former city official from Missouri who lost his job after he was charged with assaulting his wife was accused Sunday of fatally shooting her and their teenage daughters in eastern Kansas.
The Kansas attorney general's office said in a statement that James Kraig Kahler, 46, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of three counts of capital murder in the deaths of his 44-year-old wife, Karen, and their daughters, Emily, 18, and 16-year-old Lauren.
He also is accused of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of his wife's grandmother, Dorothy Wight, in whose home near Topeka the bodies were discovered on Saturday night.
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She confirmed that Kahler used to be the director of the Water & Light Department in Columbia, Mo., where he faced other charges. Online court records show Kahler was scheduled for trial in Columbia on Wednesday on a domestic assault charge that stemmed from an altercation with his wife in March.
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