Rex, 14, and Brody Reinhart, 11, were both avid youth baseball players. Their father had lost his job and was going through a divorce, officials said.
A father was suspected of killing his two young sons early Tuesday then setting his family’s waterfront vacation home in nearby Cross City on fire and killing himself, authorities said. The Dixie County Sheriff’s Office was still at the scene of the burned luxury home Tuesday along the shore of the Suwannee River in western Florida, spokeswoman Shannon Valentine said. She confirmed the deaths and said later Tuesday that the case had been turned over to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Paul Otto Reinhart,46, of Gainesville had recently lost his job as president at Reinhart Medical LLC, a medical device sales company, and was in the early stages of a divorce from his wife, Minde Prince Reinhart,42, also of Gainesville, according to friends of the couple. Minde Reinhart was listed on corporation records as vice president for the company. More local news: Driver ID’d in Saturday’s University Avenue fatal crash The children were Brody,11, and Rex,14, both avid youth baseball players.
