4 slain in Ohio; suspect dies in police shootout

(CBS/AP) WEST UNION, Ohio - Authorities say an 8-year-old girl apparently slept through the fatal shootings of four family members at a rural southern Ohio home, and the relative suspected of killing them later died in a shootout with police.

Twenty-seven-year-old Randle Lee Roberts II died Saturday in the shootout in Columbus, about an hour after the girl alerted a neighbor that something had happened at her home about 95 miles away near West Union.

Adams County Sheriff Kim Rogers says the four victims included the girl's mother and 11-year-old sister. Investigators believe the four were shot with a semi-automatic weapon but are still evaluating evidence.

The sheriff says Roberts had been staying at the home for several months, apparently because he was a burglary suspect in central Ohio and there were warrants for him.

Neighbor Karen Kimmerly, whose children rode the bus with the young victims, said the killings were a shock to the rural southern Ohio community, which she compared to the idyllic small town on "The Andy Griffith Show."

"I consider this like a Mayberry town," she said. "This should be a sanctuary."