A man who fatally shot his five children and killed himself had just discovered his wife was leaving him for another man , athurorities said Sunday .
The bodies of James Harrison , children ages 7 to 16 , were found with mulitiple gunshot wounds Saturday in the family's home , most of them in their beds .
Harrison's body had been found earlier in the day with a self-inflected gunshot wound , behind the wheel of his iding car .
The night before , the father and his eldest daughter went in search of his wife , Angela Harrison . The daughter used a GPS feature in her mom's cell phone to find her with another man at aconvenience store in nearby Auburn , said Ed Troyer , spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff .
The woman told her husband she was not coming home , and was leaving him for the man with her at the store . The father and the daughter left , distraught , Troyer said .
Sometime after the children went to sleep , he shot each of them muliple times . Four died in their beds . The fifth in the bathroom , surrounded by signs of violent struggle.
by the associated press
