Police yesterday searched for motives of grisly multiple killings in the southern US state of Georgia after the bodies of seven people were discovered there in a trailer park, reportedly shot to death.
“There are seven people deceased and two people critically injured,” Candice Temple, a spokeswoman for Glynn County Police Department, said. “The county coroner is working to identify the victims.”
Lieutenant David O’Neal of the Glynn County department said police received a 911 call shortly after 8am on Saturday “of multiple deceased persons found in a mobile home in the New Hope mobile park.”
“Officers responded and upon entry found multiple persons deceased and two persons critically injured,” he said.
There were no immediate details on how the seven people died, or the chain of events in the trailer park in Brunswick, Georgia, about 115km south of Savannah.
However an official close to the investigation “said they had been shot,” the local Brunswick News newspaper reported.
Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said the multiple killings were unique in his experience.
“There has not been such a number of victims that I know in the history of this county,” Doering said, the Brunswick News quoted him as saying.
Doering said his force was now looking for a suspect related to the deaths but that no manhunt was planned. He did not elaborate, according to local media.
“The investigation is a homicide investigation,” O’Neal said. “The coroner pronounced the victims deceased at 10.30 am.”
He declined to specify whether the victims had been shot, adding the two wounded people were transported to a local hospital.
A press release from the police department said some victims had been tentatively identified, but that officials would not release any details until the victims’ families had been informed.
Local media reports said the killings had jolted Brunswick, which is known as a peaceful, low-crime community.
The killing at the New Hope trailer park is the latest in a spate of mass killings in the US.
Earlier this month, a Pennsylvania man embittered by what he described as constant rejection by women, walked into a gym and opened fire on a dance class, killing three women before turning the gun on himself.
In an online blog uncovered after the murders, he documented in chilling detail his plans to carry out the shooting, and even described how he carried out a trial run of the killings.
Earlier, in April, a spate of mass shootings horrified Americans.
On April 3, Jiverly Voong barricaded a civic center in upstate New York, killing 13 people, most of them recent immigrants, before shooting himself.
Days later, a Washington state a man shot and killed his five children, between the ages of seven and 16, then turned the gun on himself after his wife told him she was leaving him.
Then on April 7, a gunman shot dead his wife, daughter and two other people before killing himself in Greenhill, Alabama.
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