Couple who adopted 12 children slain

Parents of 16 children who adopted 12 slain in home

Video: Home surveillance of killers outside of residence.

# Eight children found in home with slain parents
# Byrd and Melanie Billings had adopted 12 children
# Parents were found shot to death in their Florida home, near Pensacola
# Authorities hunting three men in a red van in connection with slayings

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Authorities are looking for three males in a red van in connection with the slayings, Roy said.

from WEAR ABC 3;
ESCAMBIA COUNTY - Byrd and Melonie Billings were shot multiple times in their own home while their children were present.

This was taken with a surveillance system outside the Billings' home. Investigators believe this is the vehicle use by the people who murdered the Billings.

Escambia Sheriff David Morgan says around 7 pm Thursday this red van pulled up to the Billings home. The back van door opens and 3 people dressed in black get out and run to the house. The sheriff says they forced their way in through two doors and shot the Billings multiple times. Sheriff David Morgan/Escambia County: "We are developing some persons of interest which we will release at a later date."

Here's another look at the van, investigators believe it's a 1970's or 80's Ford or Dodge 15 passenger van. It would have been in the 9700 block of Mobile Highway sometime around 7 pm last night.

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An old girlfriend of mine, her sister used to take foster kids from troubled families. I told her in private to be careful of whom she was letting in her house and treating like family, but she rebuffed me. About 4 months later, she took in this 16 yr old girl, who's mom and step dad had a serious drug problem. All was well for about a month, then the kids parents got out of jail, and robbed the whole family at gunpoint late at night after everyone was asleep. the 16 yr old let them in, and they roused everyone in the house, and ransacked the place after stealing all their jewelry, medications, and cash. It caused a lot of emotional distress for that family, and they didn't trust people like they did before. Its disheartening to open your home to someone, provide food shelter and comradery for them, and then have them savagely rob and beat you.

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