man shot two of his family and a quick meals employee lifeless earlier than capturing himself on Thursday in rural Georgia, native authorities mentioned.
The shooter killed his mom and grandmother at two neighbouring houses and killed a lady at a McDonald’s restaurant in Moultrie, south Georgia.
According to native Colquitt County Coroner C Verlyn Brock, the gunman then shot himself.
Mr Brock didn't present the identities of the shooter or the victims.
He mentioned he didn't know whether or not the gunman and the McDonald’s employee knew one another.
In an announcement, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation mentioned that there had been “a number of fatalities" at different crime scenes in the area.
As the state’s leading law enforcement agency, the GBI said the Moultrie Police Department requested its assistance, as is typical in major crimes in Georgia.
“We are working to learn more information and track down some additional witnesses,” said investigating officer Jamy Steinberg.
Sabrina Holweger, who works at an adjoining optometrist’s office, said she and a coworker arrived at work before 8am local time to find police swarming the McDonald’s and a woman’s body lying in a doorway of the restaurant.
“It was really just scary not knowing if they had shot themselves," Holweger mentioned.
She mentioned police blocked off a most important avenue that runs in entrance of the McDonald’s.
It got here hours after police arrested a person accused of opening hearth contained in the ready room of an Atlanta medical observe on Wednesday, killing one lady and wounding 4 in a separate incident.
Workers and others within the metropolis’s busy business district took shelter for hours through the manhunt for the shooter.
Moultrie is about 200 miles south from Atlanta.
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