two charged in mutliple samurai sword murder

Gruesome. Los Angeles County prosecutors filed four capital murder charges against a man and his alleged accomplice who are accused of using a samurai sword and a baseball bat to chop and beat to death the man's ex-wife, her two children and a relative: Ex-husband, alleged accomplice charged in Quartz Hill killings of 4.

Jae Hwan Shim and Steve Kwon are accused of killing the victims and then setting fire to a house to cover up the bloody scene. The pair were taken into custody last weekend after Mexican police found them near the border. They were charged with four counts of murder, burglary and special circumstances of multiple murder and murder in the commission of a burglary.