Complex sentence: On Friday, March 2,2012, an EF4 tornado killed four out of five members of a New Pekin family, leaving the fifth member of the family, a 15-month-old girl, critically injured in a nearby field.
Split into simpler sentences: On Friday, March 2,2012, an EF4 tornado hit New Pekin. The tornado initially killed four out of five members of a New Pekin family, leaving the fifth member of the family, a 15-month-old girl, critically injured in a nearby field.