Authorities say a former Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputy was the man responsible for the murders of three people in an Orcutt home. Officers were called to the 5900 block of Oakhill Road in Orcutt just after 8 Friday night.
A woman entering the home found blood all over the house, and a victim covered in blood in a bathtub. She was able to safely escape and call for help.
The first deputies to reach the scene determined a suspect was still in the house, and he was armed with a rifle. They called for a SWAT team, which entered the home looking for victims. They tried to get the man to surrender using non-lethal weapons, including a beanbag gun. When that failed, the man was fatally wounded.
Officers found three bodies in the home. The three had been beaten and stabbed to death.
Detectives say the killer was David Gerald McNabb of Orcutt. The victims include his sister, Nicole McNabb, his mother Melanie McNabb of and 63-year-old Carlos Echavarria of Orcutt.
McNabb worked for the Sheriff’s Office as a Custody Deputy from 2001 to 2012, when he voluntarily resigned. In May of 2014, he was convicted of felony domestic violence and sentenced to jail.
