More Details Released on Triple Homicide

[Update: Jan. 8, 2019] On Friday, the Sheriff’s Office released preliminary results of its investigation into the shooting death of David McNabb. The suspect, believed to have killed three people at an Orcutt home, had been holding a Browning .243-caliber, lever-action rifle that was found to be unloaded; it had belonged to his late father. He pointed it toward deputies responding to the murder scene. Four deputies fired 23 rounds from .223 rifles; McNabb was struck five times. The motive for the murders is still under investigation.

[Original Story]

Further details are being released by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office in the triple homicide attributed to former custody deputy David Gerald McNabb. The three victims were discovered on December 28, by a woman who lived at the house on the 5900 block of Oakhill Road in Orcutt. She was a friend of Nicole McNabb, 34, whom she found covered in blood in a bathtub. The discovery sent her running out of the house to call the authorities around 8:05 that Saturday night.