The day before authorities found Crystal Ragin and three of her children stabbed to death inside their Newport News apartment, her sister Shelby says Crystal begged a judge to protect her from her husband John Ragin.  A judge agreed to a protective order banning John from contacting Crystal.

But when a sheriff’s deputy finally went to serve it a day later, it was too late.

Police say it was John who stabbed and burned his wife and three step children to death. It’s a murder Crystal’s family feels could have been prevented if the protective order had been served on time.

Tonight at 11, the run-in between Crystal and John that could have sent John to jail hours before the murders if the protective order had been served. NewsChannel 3’s Jessica Larche has the details. 

In Newport News, police say a killer is behind bars.

Dimitri Pringle, 19, is charged with murdering Frederick Pretrickson at Colony Square Apartments last Thursday.

Police say Pringle turned himself in over the weekend and they charged him with murder and several weapons charges yesterday.

There is still no word on what led to the deadly shooting.

Update: According to the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office, the missing 12-year-old has been found and is safe at home. 

He was located on the property of a family member that lives in the area. No one knows where he was the entire time until that point, but investigators are talking to him. 

Police believe that he may have run away. 

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The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office has suspended its search for a 12-year-old boy this evening due to the weather. 

Linnie “Trey” Cain, III was last seen in the front yard of his home on Big Bethel Road, in the Tabb area of York County.