Abigayle Elizabeth Vaughn was 12 when she was killed on June 14, 2007. Known as Abbi, she lived in Channahon Township, Illinois, and was a student at Thompson Middle School in Oswego; she enjoyed art and playing soccer and was remembered as a devoted daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, and cousin.

On June 14 the Vaughn family was found shot inside their vehicle in a remote area near Channahon. Abigayle and her two siblings, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, had each been shot twice; their mother, Kimberly Vaughn, 34, had been shot once. Christopher Vaughn, the children’s father, survived with a gunshot wound to his thigh and was the only survivor at the scene.

Investigators recovered Christopher Vaughn’s handgun at the scene. Authorities arrested and charged him with four counts of first-degree murder; prosecutors said the killings had been planned. In 2012 he was convicted and received four life terms without the possibility of parole.

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