Deserted by wife, man shot dead five children: Police
Authorities and relatives portrayed a father believed to have killed his five children and then himself as a strict parent who had been reprimanded by the state and a jealous husband driven to rage by another man.
The children, aged 7 to 16, were found shot to death on Saturday in the family's mobile home in Graham, 24 km southeast of Tacoma. The father, James Harrison, was found earlier in the day, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot behind the wheel of his idling car 30 km away in Auburn.
The night before, the father and his eldest daughter went in search of the wife, Angela Harrison. The daughter used a global tracking feature in her mother's cell phone to find her with another man at a convenience store in Auburn, said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff.
