Homicide

Funeral services held for slain Detroit-area siblings

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Family and loved ones pay their respects to four siblings who were allegedly killed in their Dearborn Heights home, by Gregory Green, a father to two of the children and a step-father to the two others, before their funeral service at Detroit First Church of the Nazarene in Farmington Hills, Mich., Friday Sept. 30, 2016. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) (The Associated Press)

Ozie Pye, III, owner of O.H. Pye, III Funeral Home, puts funeral flags on his vehicle in front of four hearses before the service for four siblings alleged killed in their Dearborn Heights home by Gregory Green, a father to two of the children and a step-father to the two others, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, in Farmington Hills, Mich. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) (The Associated Press)

Faith Harris-Green, lower-center, is helped back to her seat before the funeral service for her four children at Detroit First Church of the Nazarene in Farmington Hills, Mich., Friday Sept. 30, 2016. The siblings were allegedly killed in their Dearborn Heights home, by Gregory Green, a father to two of the children and a step-father to the two others. Green also is accused of attacking his wife, Harris-Green. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP) (The Associated Press)

The mother of four siblings slain in their suburban Detroit home called them her "babies" at their funeral and said she loved them.

A letter by Faith Green was read Friday at a Farmington Hills church where services were held for 19-year-old Chadney Allen, 17-year-old Kara Allen, 5-year-old Koi Green and 4-year-old Kaliegh Green.

Chadney and Kara were shot Sept. 21 in their Dearborn Heights home. The younger girls died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Faith Green survived a gunshot and slashing across her face.

She recently filed for divorce from 49-year-old Gregory Green, who faces murder and other charges in the killings. He was Chadney and Kara's stepfather, and the biological father to Koi and Kaliegh.

He earlier served 16 years in prison for the 1991 killing of his first wife, who was pregnant.