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LOVELAND PARK, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year-old girl found shot to death in her bedroom died because she told authorities her best friend was being molested, family members say.

Katelind Caudill, a seventh-grader in this Cincinnati suburb, was killed early Monday, and authorities were searching for the friend’s stepfather, Melvin Keeling, 43. He also is a suspect in the fatal shooting of two convenience store clerks in Indiana about four hours

Warren County sheriff’s officials said that Katelind became ‘involved’ in a sex abuse investigation of Keeling less than two days before she was killed. They declined to give details except to say she was not the victim in the case and was a friend of Keeling’s oldest stepdaughter.

‘She was just trying to protect her friend,’ said Debbie LeBlanc, a cousin of Katelind. ‘You’re told to tell. She did the thing she was supposed to do by telling.’”

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