Police release chilling details of pastor's murder-suicide

Former First Congregational Church Pastor Daniel Randall checked himself out of rehab Thursday morning, bought a shotgun and drove to his home in Maine, where he shot his daughter before killing himself, police announced Friday afternoon.

Claire Randall, 27, died of multiple shotgun wounds about 2 p.m. Thursday, according to Maine State Police. Mr. Randall was found on the home's front porch, dead from a single gunshot wound to the head, according to Public Information Officer Stephen McCausland.

Mr. Randall, 56, who was reportedly seeking alcohol treatment at a rehab center in Portland, Maine, was estranged from the family and had been issued divorce papers earlier this week, police announced. He was married to Anita Randall, the former executive director of the East Bay Food Pantry.

Mr. Randall apparently had no key to the home he owned along with Anita, and broke into the house through the garage, police said. After shooting his daughter multiple times in the family's bathroom, Mr. Randall sprayed painted messages to his family on the walls of five rooms before he shot himself on the front porch, police said. They have not released details of the messages.

Mr. Randall resigned as pastor of First Congregational Church in January 2015. He and Anita Randall moved to Maine with their teenage son earlier this year. Claire Randall, who was the daughter of Mr. Randall's first wife, Greta, recently moved from Rhode Island to live with Anita Randall and her 14-year-old brother in Maine. Neither Anita nor her son were home at the time of the shooting.