ELLSWORTH COUNTY – The Ellsworth County Attorney filed charges following a death investigation conducted by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Ellsworth County Sheriff’s Office.
Aaron French, 37, and Makayla French, 28, of Brookville, were issued summons to appear in district court on July 28, on two counts of aggravated endangering a child, level 6 felonies, and two counts of aggravated endangering a child, level 9 felonies, connected to the deaths of their 8-year-old and 5-year-old children. KBI agents determined that on Saturday, March 28, a young child in the Brookville home located a loaded, unsecured shotgun and shot and killed two siblings.
No further information will be released.
