Fla. couple who adopted 12 are slain

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout yesterday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple shot in their rural home Thursday while eight of their children slept.

The children were unharmed.

Surveillance cameras showed the van at the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola near the Alabama border, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said.

The sheriff’s office released an enhanced but grainy photograph of a red 15-passenger van dating to the late 1970s or early 1980s.