Kids found; police seek their father

KENNEWICK – Four missing children, subject of an Amber Alert after their maternal grandparents were shot to death, were found early Saturday with relatives in Moses Lake, police said.

“The kids are fine,” Kennewick Police Cpl. Tim Scott said.

The victims of the shooting late Friday were identified as Glenn Dale Carr, 57, and his wife, Debra Jolene Carr, 50, said Sgt. Scott Child.

An arrest warrant had been issued for the children’s father, James T. Moran, 32, Child said.

The youngsters, ages 5 to 10, were found at the home of their father’s parents before dawn Saturday.

The Amber Alert was issued after neighbors reported hearing shots fired at their maternal grandparents’ mobile home. Glenn Carr died at the scene. His wife died later at Kennewick General Hospital, police said.

Asked if the search for Moran was being concentrated in the Moses Lake area, Scott said, “We don’t know where he is.”

Moran was reportedly driving a 1995 blue Honda Civic with a Washington license.

Police had been in contact with the children’s mother, who was en route to the Northwest from Arkansas, Scott said.

The status of the Morans’ marriage was not immediately known, he said.

Neighbors who reported the gunshots said they saw Moran leaving the mobile home with one of his young daughters, Sgt. Randy Maynard said. Police later learned the man had been caring for his three other children earlier in the day.

The children were two boys, James, 6, and Johnny, 5; and two girls, Danelle, 10, and Jamie, 7.

Scott said no decision had been made on whether the children would remain with their Moses Lake relatives.

The Amber Alert system uses a state’s emergency notification system to give broadcasters a description of a missing child and of a suspect’s vehicle. The information is also displayed on electronic highway signs.