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Four killed in Thanksgiving shooting

JUPITER, Fla., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Police searched Friday for a suspect in a Thanksgiving night rampage that killed four people and wounded one other at a home in Jupiter, Fla.

The manhunt centered on Paul Michael Merhige, 35, of Miami, believed to have opened fire on his family and others as they gathered for a Thanksgiving feast.

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The dead included two of Merhige's sisters, a man and a 6-year-old girl asleep in her bed when the shooting broke out.

Witnesses told police Merhige left the scene in a blue 4-door Toyota with Florida tags W427JT. the Palm Beach Post said.

"It was a domestic disturbance. That's all we know," Sgt. Scott Pascarella of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department said Friday. "What triggered the gunfire, we don't know."

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