Sisters Mystified by Slaying of Their Octogenarian Parents Inside Florida Home

Published on April 4, 2024

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—After the killing of their octogenarian parents last month in their South Florida home, Kim Melvin Hill and Tonya Mitchell went before a bank of TV cameras seeking answers on Wednesday. Why were they killed? Who would have done this? And where can the killer or killers be now? The youngest of 11 children of Major and Claudette Melvin, they are mystified as to why anyone would kill their elderly parents inside their Fort Lauderdale home and, it appears, only steal their 10-year-old Ford. “We’re angry. We’re angry. We’re very angry,” Ms. Hill said of the killings, which happened on March 22. “We ask those questions, but we are Christian people as well…so I can’t put my mind that way because if you believe in God, he has your time, your place and how.”...