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Georgia mass shooting: 5 people killed, suspect believed dead | |
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Five people have been killed in a shooting rampage in Appling, GA, with the suspected gunman confirmed dead in an apparent suicide. Police say there is a domestic motive behind the killings. | |
Police believe the suspect, Wayne Anthony Hawes, started shooting after he found out his wife was divorcing him. | Police believe the suspect, Wayne Anthony Hawes, started shooting after he found out his wife was divorcing him. |
Four people are believed to have died at the scene, while another was taken to the hospital and died there. | Four people are believed to have died at the scene, while another was taken to the hospital and died there. |
Columbia County Coroner Vernon Collins is working to confirm their identities, with all five bodies set to be taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab, AP reported. | |
The Columbia rampage comes just a day after three young children survived the shootings that took lives of eight people in Pike County, Ohio. | |
The surviving children are four days, six months and three years old, respectively, and are all from the same family. | |
READ MORE: 3 children survive Ohio massacre of 7 adults, 1 juvenile; suspect at large |