Not much detail yet on this story, but once again gun violence in America rears its devastatingly cruel and monstrous head.
TYRONE, Missouri – Nine people were found dead in southern Missouri, authorities said Friday.
Texas County Sheriff James Sigman confirmed the deaths to the Houston Herald Friday morning.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed to CBS Springfield affiliate KOLR-TV that a shooter has been identified as one of the nine.
Police are saying that there are four confirmed separate crime scenes, and two other potential ones. Other reports indicate the suspected killer with the gun was found dead in a parked car.
Texas County sheriff’s deputies found victims in four separate residences in the Tyrone area after responding to a call about a disturbance. The caller, described as a juvenile girl, reported hearing shots in her house “and immediately fled to a neighbor’s house,” the statement said.
Further investigation revealed five additional victims who were deceased and one additional victim who was wounded in three additional residences” in the unincorporated community, the highway patrol said.
One report claims one of the people found dead at one of the sites was an elderly woman who was not shot, but who died of “natural causes.”
One person was found wounded but alive.
Condolences to all the family members of the deceased.
