posted 07-09-2003 07:17 AM               

Five shot dead in California home
Vice principal sought as possible suspect
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 Posted: 3:26 PM EDT (1926 GMT)
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 Posted: 3:26 PM EDT (1926 GMT)

BAKERSFIELD, California (AP) -- Five people, including three children, were found shot to death at a home Tuesday, and police searched for the vice principal of an elementary school as a possible suspect.

The five -- including a grandmother and a mother -- had been shot repeatedly.

Detective Mary DeGeare said police were looking for Vincent Brothers, 41, the vice principal at Fremont Elementary. DeGeare said he is the former husband of one of the women and father of at least two of the children.

"He is a person of interest, a possible suspect," DeGeare said. "We'd like to find him to determine whether he was responsible or eliminate him as a suspect."

DeGeare said the infant was about 2 months old, and the children about 5 or 6. The victims' names were not immediately released.

Police found the bodies after being called to the home by a family friend who had gone to check on the family because they had missed church on Sunday.