Moultrie shooting spree – latest: McDonald’s manager named as one of three victims killed by employee

Multiple people were killed on Thursday in what’s believed to be a shooting spread across multiple locations in Moultrie, Gerogia.

“We are investigating multiple incidents and there are fatalities involved,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told The Moultrie Observer.

One of the crime scenes is at a McDonald’s fast food restaurant, according to the paper.

Another address nearby is also under investigation, according to WALB-TV.

A gunman is at large after opening fire inside a Georgia McDonald’s causing “multiple” casualties, reports say.

Police are investigating the incident which took place in Moultrie, Georgia, around three hours south of Atlanta, and there are multiple crime scenes, according to The Moultrie Observer.

Moultrie police and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents are probing fatal incidents at Moultrie’s McDonald’s restaurant and a residence on Sixth Street Southwest, reported the newspaper.

Graeme Massie is following the news for The Independent.

Four people are dead following a shooting in a rural town in Georgia, per local officials.

A gunman killed his mother and grandmother at two neighbouring homes in the town of Moultrie, killed a worker at a local McDonald’s, then died by suicide, the local coroner told The Associated Press.

The shooting in Moultrie, Georgia, today took place across multiple locations.

The gunman, as of yet unidentified, shot his mother and grandmother in their homes, Colquitt County coroner C Verlyn Brock told CBS News.

The shooter’s mother died at the scene, while his grandmother, who lived next door, was taken to a local hospital and died there.

After that, the gunman shot the assistant manager of a local McDonalds then killed himself.

A gunman who killed four people, including himself, in rural Georgia on Thursday reportedly worked at a McDonald’s restaurant where one of the victims was killed, according to a local resident.

Sabrina Holweger, who works at an optometrist’s office near one of the shooting scenes, told The Associated Press she believes the gunman worked at a local McDonald’s , and appeared to have shot a manager at the fast food chain when she went to unlock the front door and let him in for an early-morning shift.

Today’s shooting in Georgia comes on the heels of another mass killing in the state.

On Wednesday, a gunman allegedly killed one person and injured multiple others at a hospital in Atlanta.

Suspect Deion Patterson was later captured following a countywide manhunt.

Despite criticisms that Democrat-run cities are the epicentres of gun violence in America, research shows that red states and rural areas alike have disproportionately high levels of gun violence.

Here’s our report digging deeper into the research.

There is no threat to the public following a shooting that left four dead in Moultrie, Georgia, on Thursday, according to city officials.

The gunman was among those who perished in the shooting, police have said.

Moultrie City Manager Pete Dillard told WALB-TV there’s now no danger to the public.

The outlines of today’s shooting in rural Moultrie, Georgia, are starting to become clearer.

The gunman, whose name has still not been released to the public, is a 26-year-old man, who killed his 50-year-old mother, 74-year-old grandmother, then a 41-year-old McDonald’s worker, before dying by suicide, according to Colquitt County coroner Verlyn Brock.

Police are now seeking additional next of kin as they investigate the shooting, The Moultrie Observer reports.

The gunman shot and killed his family members in a series of neighbouring houses, and lived at the address where his mother was slain.

Thursday’s mass shooting Moultrie, Georgia, was part of a wave of gun violence across the US in 2023.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 192 mass shootings this year, which is more than one such massacre a day.