The Gainesville Sun, the exact cause of death is for now unknown, and the medical examiner is currently working with the involved sheriff’s offices and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement the latter of which has taken over the case’s forensics in order to ascertain the details surrounding the apparent murder-suicide.
Various reports have noted that the elder Reinhart was posting pictures of his wedding and family as late as 5 a.m. on Tuesday. Such photographs were apparently a sore and painful reminder of what would have been his upcoming 20th anniversary with his wife,
Minde Prince Reinhart, 42, who lives in Gainesville.
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The Reinharts were family friends with Gators baseball coach Kevin O Sullivan
The children were Brody, 11, and Rex, 14, both avid youth baseball players. The family was friends with Florida coach Kevin “Sully” O Sullivan. The University Athletic Association declined immediately to comment.
Back in Gainesville, about 50 miles east of the fire, investigators from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office were interviewing neighbors in the gated community around the family’s $900,000 home in west Gainesville. Spokeswoman Lt. Kaley Behl said Dixie County authorities had asked for assistance with what it described as a “murder-suicide joint investigation.”
A spokesman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Jeremy Burns, said the agency would be involved in the investigation and any forensic work.
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Authorities: Father Suspected Of Killing Two Young Sons, Including UF Batboy, Self And Burning Vacation Home
By Thomas Weber
May 4, 2021
Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of suicide. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or the Alachua County Crisis Center at 352-264-6789.
A father was suspected of killing his two young sons early Tuesday – including an 11-year-old who was regularly the batboy for the No. 10-ranked University of Florida baseball team – setting on fire his family’s waterfront vacation home in nearby Cross City then killing himself, authorities said.
The Alachua County Sheriff s Office is looking for a missing local man who may need medical help.
David Eric Wright, 48, was last seen Tuesday by his wife before she left home for work, sheriff s spokesman Art Forgey said. When she returned home that evening, she could not find him in their home, but his phone, wallet and vehicle were left behind.
Family friends and deputies searching woods along the 6000 block of Southwest 13th Street, where the couple live, have been unable to find him as of Friday morning, Lt. Kaley Behl said.
The disappearance is out of character for Wright, Behl said, because he does have limited mobility and other health issues the agency would not specify, citing privacy laws.