Prospero Serna, 38, was charged with two counts of murder and assault on a child under eight causing death, as well as one count each of attempted murder and child abuse after an incident over the weekend in Lancaster that left two of his children dead and two others hospitalized.
A man has been charged with murdering of his two young children and attacking another child at a home in Lancaster, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.Prospero Guadalupe Serna, 38, was charged with two counts each of murder and assault on a child under eight causing death and one count each of attempted murder and child abuse. His arraignment in a Lancaster courtroom was postponed until Nov. 30, but Serna was ordered to remain jailed without bail.
Serna was detained a few blocks away, authorities said.'Prospero Serna, the father of the children, was initially detained as a person of interest in the case,' the sheriff's department said in a statement Monday.'Homicide detectives determined there was sufficient evidence to arrest Prospero Serna for the crimes of murder and child abuse,' the sheriff's statement said. 'However, Prospero Serna is refusing to cooperate with sheriff's deputies ...
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