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Police search for two teens after killings
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-15 00:57
Police late Sunday issued an arrest warrant for Ludwig on two counts of
criminal homicide, one count of reckless endangerment and one count of
kidnapping. He was last seen driving his parents' red Volkswagen Jetta.
"We think they're boyfriend and girlfriend," said Seace. "The young girl was
out during the night, came home, and her parents confronted her."
Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said Monday that the victims, who
were both 50, apparently died of single gunshot wounds to the head. Autopsies
were being conducted.
"It's completely insane, completely insane," Kirchner said. "This isn't a
Romeo-and-Juliet deal; this is far worse than that."
It was the second violent incident in a week in normally quiet Lititz, a
Lancaster County village known for quaint shops, local artists and Sturgis
Pretzel House, which bills itself as America's first pretzel bakery.
On Tuesday, police shot and killed 23-year-old Daniel B. Faust hours after he
allegedly shot one of three officers who had gone to his home with a traffic
warrant. The officer, Jevon M. Miller, was critically wounded.
The Borden family had lived in their home for several years, said neighbor
Tod Sherman, 47. Mike Borden worked for a printing company, and the children
were home-schooled, he said.
Sherman said the family knew the 18-year-old suspect through a home-schooling
network.
Stephanie Mannon, 16, said Ludwig and Kara Borden had been seeing each other
secretly.
"Their parents didn't approve of them being together" because of the age
difference, she said. "It wasn't because he was a shady character, because he
wasn't."
Both Ludwig and Kara Borden maintain Web sites. Hers refers to interests in
soccer, art and her Christian faith; his says he enjoys "having soft air gun
wars" and claims expertise in "getting in trouble."
Neighbor John Hohman, 40, said his family got a phone call from officials
Sunday morning warning them to stay inside. He said he looked out a window and
saw police running through the neighborhood. Later, authorities told residents
to go to their basements.
"We were really upset. We didn't know what was going on," Hohman said.
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