Va. dad lured son home for family slaying Posted: 5 months ago by kakana Carter told investigators his 56-year-old father called him at Radford University, about 90 miles away, and said his mother needed to speak to him. When he arrived home in the rural community of Axton, his father said his brother was sick and was downstairs in the basement of the brick ranch-style house. As Timothy Carter walked downstairs his father shot him in the back. Comments: 2 Score: [-] 665 [+].