Four people were killed Thursday in a small town in rural southern Georgia, including a fast food worker and two relatives of a gunman who took his own life, the county sheriff said.
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The shooter killed his mother and grandmother at two neighboring homes and killed a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Moultrie, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press. He said the gun killed himself.
Brock did not provide the identities of the shooter or the victim. He said he did not know if the gunman and the McDonald’s employee knew each other.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement only that there have been “several deaths” in various crime scenes in the area.
Police seized the restaurant on Wednesday morning, closing the lanes on one of the main streets in the south Georgia town of 15,000.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the Moultrie Police Department asked for your help.
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“We are working to learn more information and track down more witnesses,” said GBI Special Agent in Charge Jamy Steinberg.
Moultrie is about 60 miles (95 km) northeast of Tallahassee, Florida.
