The suspect, Richard Dale Crum, a 52-year-old man, who has been charged with murder. “His motive is not known,” Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said.
Six people were killed Friday by a gunman in a store and several houses in a small town in Mississippi, in the south of the United States, announced the local sheriff’s office quoted by American media.
The suspect opened fire in a store in Arkabutla, a town of just under 300 inhabitants, where he killed a man, before going to a nearby house and shooting a woman, said Brad Lance , sheriff of Tate County, quoted by WREG3 TV, a local channel affiliated with CBS.
Brad Lance said the shooter then went to another house and shot two other people, killing them as well.
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The killing streak came to a halt after a sheriff’s office officer spotted a car matching the description of the suspect’s and initiated a chase. It ended in the driveway of a house where the suspect was apprehended.
Around this house, the agents discovered a deceased person in a car, and another on the road, bringing the toll to six dead.
“We believe he acted alone,” Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement asking to “pray for the victims of this tragic act of violence, and their families.”