Hillsboro
– E.O. Collins, who admitted to Hill County deputies that he took a
shot in the dark with his 12-gauge when he heard his daughter scream,
gained his release at 5 p.m. today when a Dallas bonding agency
underwrote the surety on a $500,000 bond.
Charged
with murder, Mr. Collins told lawmen that he heard the girl's scream
after a wild flight into the woodsy area of his family property's
fence line as he and his children fled intruders with flashlights.
Terrified,
Mr. Collins assumed they had come to do him harm.
When
he saw the reflection of the flashlights approaching, he ordered his
two sons and a 15-year-old daughter to retreat.
His
daughter screamed in the dark; Mr. Collins fired in that direction,
and he found the child dead, facedown, a shotgun blast to her back
having killed her.
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