LANCASTER, Calif. - Four children and a woman were found shot to death in a Southern California home and a man believed to be the children’s father was detained, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.The victims were found Sunday night in a home in the city of Lancaster in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, the department said in a statement.Deputies found a woman, a girl and three boys with gunshot wounds to the upper torso and paramedics pronounced all of them dead at the scene, the department said.
All of the children were under age 12.MORE: Interrupted auto burglary leads to fatal shooting near Lake MerrittThe man believed to be the children’s father was detained after he showed up at the lobby of the.