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This undated photo provided by Jim Sitton via WPTV shows Makayla Sitton, 6. Four people including a child in bed were shot to death during a family Thanksgiving gathering Thursday night, Nov. 26, 2009 in Jupiter, Fla., and a manhunt was under way across South Florida early Friday for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, a relative suspected in the slayings. (AP Photo/ Jim Sitton via WPTV)

This undated photo provided by Jim Sitton via WPTV shows Makayla Sitton, 6. Four people including a child in bed were shot to death during a family Thanksgiving gathering Thursday night, Nov. 26, 2009 in Jupiter, Fla., and a manhunt was under way across South Florida early Friday for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, a relative suspected in the slayings. (AP Photo/ Jim Sitton via WPTV)

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  • This undated photo provided by Jim Sitton via WPTV shows Makayla Sitton, 6. Four people including a child in bed were shot to death during a family Thanksgiving gathering Thursday night, Nov. 26, 2009 in Jupiter, Fla., and a manhunt was under way across South Florida early Friday for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, a relative suspected in the slayings. (AP Photo/ Jim Sitton via WPTV)
  • This undated drivers license photo provided Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, by the Jupiter Police shows Paul Michael Merhige. Police were searching Friday for Merhige, suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration. (AP Photo/Jupiter Police Dept.)
  • The body of one of the victims killed in a shooting Thursday night, Nov. 26, 2009, is placed in a van at the scene of the incident Friday Nov. 27, 2009, in Jupiter, Fla. Police were searching Friday for a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration. (AP Photo/Rick Silva)
  • A Jupiter police officer stands in front a home Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, where four people were killed, including a 6-year-old girl, during a shooting at Thanksgiving dinner Thursday night. Police were searching Friday for a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Lannis Waters)
  • Jupiter police conduct an investigation Friday morning, Nov. 27, 2009, in Jupiter, Fla. Police were searching Friday for Paul Michael Merhige, a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Lannis Waters)
  • Jupiter police conduct an investigation Friday morning, Nov. 27, 2009, in Jupiter, Fla. Police were searching Friday for Paul Michael Merhige, a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Lannis Waters)
  • Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella stands in front of a home that was the scene of a multiple homicide, background, as he speaks to the media about the shooting deaths Friday Nov. 27, 2009 in Jupiter, Fla. Police were searching Friday for a man suspected in the Thanksgiving shooting deaths of his twin sisters, aunt and a 6-year-old cousin during a family celebration.

Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday for a man police said opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner and killed four people, including his pregnant sister and a 6-year-old cousin who was sleeping in her bed.

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