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S.C. police say dad killed 5 kids ‘by violent means’

Timothy Ray Jones Jr. is expected to be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama on Tuesday where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Photos of Timothy Ray Jones Jr. children are on display during a news conference at the Lexington County Sheriff's Dept Training Center in Lexington, S.C., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Jones Jr., 32, will be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama, where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags, a sheriff said Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
Timothy Ray Jones Jr., is escorted by lawmen out of the Smith County Jail to a vehicle for transport to Lexington County, S.C., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 in Raleigh, Miss. Jones is expected to be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama on Tuesday where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A dirt-filled area near the crime scene isfound on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, in Camden, Ala. Timothy Ray Jones Jr. is expected to be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama on Tuesday where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
A view of the home of Timothy Ray Jones is shown, in Redbank, South Carolina, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Authorities expect to charge Jones in connection with the deaths of his five children after he led officers to a secluded clearing in Alabama where their bodies lay wrapped in individual garbage bags. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
A view of the home of Timothy Ray Jones is shown, in Redbank, S.C., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Jones Jr. is expected to be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama on Tuesday where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
A view of the home of Timothy Ray Jones is shown, in Redbank, S.C., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Jones Jr. is expected to be charged with murder in the deaths of his five children after he led authorities to a secluded clearing in Alabama on Tuesday where their bodies were found wrapped in garbage bags. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)
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September 11, 2014 - 4:52 pm
 

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Authorities say a South Carolina man killed his five children at home, “by violent means,” about a week before his ex-wife reported them missing.

Lexington County Coroner Earl Wells and Lexington County Sheriff Lewis McCarty released the information Thursday. Wells said an investigation into the cause of their deaths is continuing.

In a news release, McCarty said that arrest warrants allege Timothy Ray Jones Jr. “willfully and maliciously killed his five children by violent means at his Lexington home.”

The 32-year-old Jones is scheduled to make his first court appearance at 10 a.m. Friday, one day after he was returned to South Carolina. That’s the same day a memorial service was scheduled for his children in Mississippi, where other relatives live.

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