October 23, 2024

BURLINGAME — The fourth shooting victim of a multiple murder in Burlingame has died. Attorney General Steve Six’s office said 89-year-old Dorothy Wight died Tuesday but delayed an announcement at the family’s request. Six’s office said that another charge of capital murder will be made against James Kraig Kahler in Osage County District Court. Kahler has already been charged in the weekend’s shooting deaths of his estranged wife Karen Kahler and their two teenage daughters, Emily and Lauren. Wight was karen Kahler’s grandmother and they were visiting her for the holiday. The Kahlers’ son escaped without injury during the shootings and called police. A former head of the Columbia, Mo., municipal utility, James Kraig Kahler is in jail on $1 million bond.

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