UNITED STATES
Six shot dead in small Mississippi town
The shooting took place in a store and then in several homes in the southern United States.
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Since the beginning of January, mass shootings have followed one another in the United States (photo illustration).
AFP
Six people were killed Friday by a gunman in a store and several houses in a small town in Mississippi, in the south of the United States, announced the local sheriff’s office quoted by American media.
The suspect opened fire in a store in Arkabutla, a town of just under 300 inhabitants, where he killed a man, before going to a nearby house and shooting a woman, said Brad Lance , sheriff of Tate County, quoted by WREG3 TV, a local channel affiliated with CBS. Brad Lance said the shooter then went to another house and shot two other people, killing them as well.
The mobile “not known” for the moment
The killing streak came to a halt after a sheriff’s office officer spotted a car matching the description of the suspect’s and initiated a pursuit. It ended in the driveway of a house where the suspect was apprehended. Around this house, the agents discovered a deceased person in a car, and another on the road, bringing the toll to six dead.
“We believe he acted alone,” Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said in a tweet, asking to “pray for the victims of this tragic act of violence, and their families.” Memphis Actions News 5 identified the suspect as 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum, who has been charged with murder. “His motive is not known,” Governor Reeves said.
(AFP)