Four people died Thursday in a small town in rural southern Georgia, including a fast-food worker and two relatives of a gunman who killed himself, the local coroner said.
The shooter killed his mother and grandmother in 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 gunman killed himself.
Brock did not provide the identities of the shooter or the victims. He said he did not know if the gunman and the McDonald’s worker knew each other.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement only that there had been “multiple fatalities” at various crime scenes in the area.
Police swarmed the restaurant Thursday morning, shutting down traffic on one of the main streets in the south Georgia city of 15,000.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the Moultrie Police Department requested their assistance.
“We are working to get more information and locate some additional witnesses,” said GBI Special Agent Jamy Steinberg.
Moultrie is located about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northeast of Tallahassee, Florida.
