Father blamed for shooting five children in mobile home

A QUIET mobile home park nestled among towering evergreens reeled yesterday in the aftermath of an unthinkable crime: five children slain in their own home, apparently by their father, who subsequently committed suicide.

“How could something like this happen?” asked Mary Ripplinger, whose children were playmates of the slain children. “Everyone’s asking: Why did he do it? It’s not right.”

A relative visiting the family’s doublewide trailer at the Deer Run mobile home park on Saturday couldn’t get anyone to answer the door but through a window glimpsed a child lying motionless on a bed.