ATLANTA (AP) – The Latest on the deaths of a man and four children outside Atlanta (all times local):
9 a.m.
A woman charged with killing four of her young children and their father smiled and posed for cameras, giving a double “thumbs up” sign to a photographer as she awaited her first court hearing.
Authorities in Georgia charged 33-year-old Isabel Martinez on Thursday afternoon with five counts of malice murder, five counts of murder and six counts of aggravated assault, hours after police said she called 911 to report the killings from the home the family shared outside Atlanta.
Police said a fifth child, a girl, survived but remained hospitalized with injuries described as serious.