Man kills mother, grandmother and McDonald’s worker before turning gun on himself in rural Georgia town

MOULTRIE, Ga. – A Georgia man shot two of his family and a quick meals employee lifeless earlier than killing himself on Thursday in rural south Georgia, the native coroner mentioned.

The shooter killed his mom and grandmother at two neighboring properties and killed a lady at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Moultrie, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock informed The Related Press. He mentioned the gunman then shot himself.

Brock didn’t present the identities of the shooter or the victims. He mentioned he didn’t know whether or not the gunman and the McDonald’s employee knew one another.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation mentioned in an announcement solely that there had been “a number of fatalities” at totally different crime scenes within the space. Because the state’s main legislation enforcement company, the GBI mentioned the Moultrie Police Division requested its help, as is typical in main crimes in Georgia.

“We’re working to study extra data and observe down some extra witnesses,” GBI Particular Agent in Cost Jamy Steinberg wrote in an e mail.

Sabrina Holweger, who works at an adjoining optometrist’s workplace, mentioned she and a coworker arrived at work earlier than 8 a.m. to search out police swarming the McDonald’s and a lady’s physique gunned down and mendacity in a doorway of the restaurant.

“It was actually simply scary not realizing if that they had shot themselves,” Holweger mentioned.

She mentioned police blocked off a major road that runs in entrance of the McDonald’s within the metropolis of 15,000 and informed workers in her workplace that they’d be questioned in the event that they crossed the property line into the McDonald’s parking zone.

Holweger mentioned the girl who died on the restaurant was the early morning supervisor, and that the shooter had been an worker there. Holweger mentioned it appeared that the person killed the girl when she unlocked the door to let him in for an early-morning shift.

Moultrie is about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northeast of Tallahassee, Florida.

The Chicago-based McDonald’s Corp. didn’t instantly reply to an e mail in search of remark Thursday.