The attack began at 2 a.m. April 16 in the comfortable home in Farmington Hills.
Tucker Cipriano and Mitchell Young broke a window in the garage and gained entry into the Cipriano home, where they proceeded to bludgeon Tucker's parents and brother with baseball bats in an attack that left Robert Cipriano, 52, dead in a pool of blood, and Rosemary Cipriano, 51, and Salvatore Cipriano, 17, barely alive.
The Free Press story, by reporters Free Press reporters L.L. Brasier and Gina Damron, is based on police reports, interviews and witness statements. It provides the first -- and horrifying -- details to the crime that riveted metro Detroit last month.
Tucker Cipriano, 19, and Young, 20, have been charged with first-degree murder and other crimes and are being held in the Oakland County Jail.
The youngest member of the family, 8-year-old Isabella, heard the noise of the attack and grabbed her pink and purple softball bat to save her mother. Her brother, Tucker, took the bat and began beating his mother and brother.
"None of this was suposed to happen," Young told police.
