The words "Vow Breaker" were spray painted on a kitchen counter inside the former-Bristol family's home.

HEBRON, Maine — A former Rhode Island pastor shot and killed his daughter, a high school valedictorian, before turning the gun on himself, Maine State Police said Friday.

A neighbor discovered the bodies of 56-year-old Daniel Randall and 27-year-old Claire Randall in a house in Hebron on Thursday, the state police said. The family had moved to Maine earlier in the year from Rhode Island.

The Portland Press Herald reported Friday that the neighbor, 71-year-old Carroll Daggett, had been contacted by Anita Randall, Daniel's wife and Claire's mother, and she asked him to check on Claire, who wasn't answering her cellphone. Daggett told the newspaper that he found the words "Vow Breaker" spray painted on a kitchen counter inside the Randall home.

Police say Daniel Randall had been released from an alcohol treatment facility in Portland on Thursday. He then bought a shotgun and drove to the home of his estranged family. He broke into the house through a garage door, police said. He killed his adult daughter and then himself, police said Friday. His body was found on a porch with a shotgun nearby.

Claire Randall had recently moved from Rhode Island to stay with her mother and teenage brother at the house in Hebron. Neither the mother nor brother was home at the time of the shootings, police said.

Claire Randall was the valedictorian of her 2008 graduating class at Mount Hope High School, according to Providence Journal records.

At the time, she lived at 25 Lisa Lane in Bristol with her parents and she was planning to attend Syracuse University, according to her interview. She also said she was a Red Sox fan, that her favorite class was AP English, and she worked part time at a local toy store.

According to town records, Daniel Randall and Anita Randall sold 25 Lisa Lane in August for $390,000. Daniel Randall was formerly the senior pastor and teacher of the First Congregational Church, at 300 High St. in Bristol, and Anita Randall is the former executive director of the East Bay Food Bank on Franklin Street in Bristol.

A Dec. 17, 2014, letter to the congregation from Randall said that his family, "Anita, Molly, Claire and Gabe have shared a wonderful spiritual journey with you for 12 years.... That is why my decision is so challenging at this time."

The letter added that he had decided, "after much prayer and thought, to seek a new direction and call. Therefore, I will be resigning as pastor of the First Congregational Church in Bristol, effective on January 26, 2015."

"We have not heard anything from [Anita]," Nicki Ann Tyska, the current executive director of the food pantry, said Friday morning. "Right now, our thoughts and prayers are with Anita, Molly and Gabe."

Roger Williams University issued a statement Friday noting that between 2009 and 2012, the university paid Randall as a vendor to be an affiliated chaplain, but added that he was never a university employee.

The former pastor's December 2014 farewell letter also noted that during his tenure, the church founded the East Bay Food Pantry. "We have literally changed Bristol with our work together," he wrote. "We have impacted thousands of lives for the better."

—With reports from the Associated Press