Archive for December 2nd, 2009

An elderly woman has died from injuries suffered in a weekend shooting in northeast Kansas that also left her granddaughter and two great-granddaughters dead.

Kansas’ attorney general on Wednesday announced the death of 89-year-old Dorothy Wight of Osage County.

Spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett says Wight died at a Topeka hospital on Tuesday, three days after the shootings at her home outside Burlingame.

Forty-six-year-old James Kraig Kahler, a former Columbia, Mo., city official, already is charged with capital murder in the deaths of his 44-year-old estranged wife, Karen, and their daughters, 18-year-old Emily and 16-year-old Lauren. Dorothy Wight was Karen Kahler’s grandmother.

Authorities say the Kahler’s 10-year-old son, Sean, also was at the home at the time of the shootings but was not injured.

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