LF: Eight people dead over 'family feud' in rural Missouri town by gunman who then shot himself

Title: Eight people dead over 'family feud' in rural Missouri town by gunman who then shot himself
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -rural-Missouri-shootings.html
Published: Feb 27, 2015
Author: Christopher Brennan
Post Date: 2015-02-27 10:40:29 by cranky
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Seven people were shot dead in rural Missouri over a suspected family feud before the alleged killer took his own life.

The killings took place overnight on Thursday at four separate crime scenes around Tyrone, Texas County, according to the local sheriff James Sigman.

The suspected shooter, 36, shot himself in his car outside of a farm on the outskirts of Summersville, Missouri, a resident of the town told Daily Mail Online.

Nine people have died in a string of shootings in southern Missouri on Friday morning at four different crime scenes (pictured)

The shootings are thought to have occurred at four separate scenes near Tyrone, a small town in Texas County, Missouri

The Summersville resident said that there had been an ongoing feud between the suspected shooter's family and some of the victims.

He said that everyone in the small towns of Tyrone and Summersville are aware of each other, and that 'he probably killed 10 per cent of the town's population last night'.

A frightened girl called the police around 10.15pm on Thursday after hearing gunshots and fleeing to a neighbor's house. Two bodies were later found in the girl's home.

Five more bodies were found in three additional residences and an elderly woman 'died of natural causes,' according to Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Missouri State Highway Patrol's Jeff Kinder said he did not know what the relation of the woman who died of natural causes was to the other seven victims

It is unclear how her death is related to the others and she is not being listed as a victim, though Missouri State Highway Patrol's Sergeant Jeff Kinder said he thinks there is some sort of relationship.

One other person was injured with a gunshot wound and is in the hospital, according to the Houston Herald.

Troopers have begun investigation in the area. A resident reported that authorities were knocking on doors at 3.45am on Friday.

Staff of the town's school district have been told to arrive early for counseling.

Texas County, Missouri is an Ozark region of about 25,000 people located east of college town Springfield and south of Army base Fort Leonard Wood.

Tyrone is located in the southern portion of the county, south of Houston, the county seat.

Troopers mobilized in the area (pictured) in the early hours of Friday morning. The person responsible for the shootings has been found dead in Shannon County, the eastern neighbor of Texas County

Police first heard of the incident when a young girl called about gunshots at 10:15pm on Thursday evening

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

It's a bad idea to feud with people who feel they have nothing to lose. Because if they do decide to end it all, taking you with them to the grave helps them make a statement.