Two Held on Murder Charges in Killing of Fla. Parents

The Escambia County Sheriff's Office said men in a red full-size van were seen leaving the home of...

The Escambia County Sheriff's Office said men in a red full-size van were seen leaving the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings -- the Escambia County couple found shot to death in the bedroom of their home in Beulah, just west of Pensacola near the Alabama border.

(Courtesy Pensacola News)

In a published report, the couple said they started adopting the disadvantaged kids because they wanted to give back to society for their good fortune.

"Byrd and Melanie Billings, I believe, exemplified what is good and decent in society," Morgan told reporters Friday. "It only adds to the hatefulness and senselessness of this act, and I can tell you that our community has an outpouring as I speak for the deaths of these two individuals."

Outside the Billings home Saturday, someone left balloons and flowers in memory of the parents who were killed.

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A family friend, school bus driver Yvonne Hahn, told the Pensacola News Journal she raced to the home after the killings and saw some of the kids as they left the house with a relative.

"They seemed all right, but they were upset," Hahn told the paper.

"Matthew told me that he didn't have a mom and daddy anymore because his mom and dad had got shot," Hahn told ABC News affiliate WEAR-TV in Pensacola. "I told him they'll always be your mom and dad, they just won't be here right now."

ABC News' Matt Gutman in Florida and The Associated Press contributed to this report.