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HOUSTON — A father has been charged with fatally shooting his adult son with Down syndrome at a home in East Texas after claiming he had mistaken him for an intruder and then later burning his body in what authorities on Thursday described as a “bizarre crime.” Michael C. Howard, 68, who is an attorney in Houston, told investigators he …