Boy, 9, whose family was ‘massacred in their tent by random campsite attacker’ is being courageous, relatives reveal
A NINE-year-old boy is showing "courage" after being orphaned when his mom, father and six-year-old sister were all killed by a gunman in a "random attack" at a campsite, his uncle revealed.
Tyler and Sarah Schmidt, both 42, were found dead in their tent at Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground in Iowa along with their daughter, Lula, after being killed by Anthony Sherwin, cops say.
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“He was in his pajamas.
“I distinctly remember he had one blue tennis shoe,” she said.
“He’s got this really cute, floppy-curly, moppy, strawberry-blond hair that’s really distinguishable,” Coe said.
“He was in these super cute little pajamas, like a cotton T-shirt and shorts that matched. ... He was just standing there."
He wasn’t crying. He wasn’t distraught.”
"But he also wasn’t being comforted. He was just standing there by himself.”
Sherwin had no connection to the family, Morehouse confirmed.
“Nobody in our families had ever met the individual or the individual's families,” Morehouse said.
“No interactions had occurred as far as we know and it was just an individual who decided that morning to pick a tent and walk in and have this devastating tragedy occur that affects multiple people and families, all over the Midwest, and unfortunately, that tent belonged to my sister and her beautiful family."
He told the outlet he awoke to the sound of gunshots and someone yelling.
"I saw a young boy run up from the area yelling for help.”
“I told him to keep running in my direction and I would help him.”
“ I asked him what happened and he said a man in black shot his family," the father said.
He told the outlet his son was not wearing black but that they were legally traveling with a gun but it was in a secure container under the back seat."
The younger Sherwin was found by police with a gunshot wound to the head.
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He had no criminal history and was living with his parents.
"We refuse to believe the news.”