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HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — A neighborhood on the fringe of suburban Atlanta crawled with police on Sunday as Georgia authorities hunted for a man suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in the subdivision before fleeing.

Andre Longmore, 40, is accused of fatally shooting the people Saturday morning before driving away from the Dogwood Lakes subdivision in Hampton on Atlanta’s southern outskirts, police said. Longmore is wanted on four counts of murder in the deaths. Police haven’t said why Longmore may have acted.

Hampton Police Capt. Chaundra Brownlee said Sunday in a news release that police still are seeking information on Longmore’s whereabouts, adding investigators are “actively receiving leads and looking into each tip provided.” She also reiterated that Longmore is considered armed and dangerous.

Authorities in Georgia are hunting for a man suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in a suburban neighborhood south of Atlanta.

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Neighbor Frankie Worth said he saw that danger up close. He told The Associated Press that he was glancing through the blinds of his living room window to check if his front yard needed mowing Saturday when he heard a gunshot.

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Worth said Sunday he ducked “just for a second” when the shot rang out. Then he looked back out the window. “You know, when you get incoming, you’ve got to know where it’s coming from,” said Worth, who identified himself as a Marine Corps veteran.

A neighbor Worth knows as Andre was standing in the middle of the street, Worth said, with his hands jerking from the recoil of firing a silver handgun.

Worth said Andre appeared to have fired at a small white car being driven by another neighbor, “an older white gentleman,” who lives across from Worth. He said the shooting happened on a cul de sac where they all live, with Longmore about 12 feet (3 and 1/2 meters) away as the car moved off. Worth said he couldn’t see if anyone else was in the car.

Worth said he first thought he was witnessing a road rage confrontation, but said Andre moved deliberately.

“He didn’t appear angry, upset, agitated,” Worth said.

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Worth said Longmore appeared to evaluate whether he needed to shoot again and then “started walking casually” toward the entrance to the subdivision, before picking up his pace to a “brisk stride.” Worth said he ran upstairs, watching Longmore disappear behind some trees, as he called police.

Worth said he heard no more gunshots after that.

Hampton Police Chief James Turner told reporters Saturday that detectives were investigating at least four crime scenes in Dogwood Lakes, where at least three police cars remained present Sunday, limiting access.

Police did not immediately identify the victims.

Public records show Longmore lived in the neighborhood, where about 40 houses on two streets flank a lake in the subdivision about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of downtown Atlanta.

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After the shooting, Longmore fled in a black GMC Acadia SUV, police said.

Ron Foster, who lives on the main road just outside the subdivision entrance, said Longmore drove through his yard and his neighbor’s yard, destroying multiple ornamental windmills and leaving tire tracks still visible in the grass a day later. Foster was inside his house and heard the metal crash, coming out to find the destroyed windmills.

“What was going through that man’s mind after he did all he done?” Foster wondered. “It was unreal.”

Foster didn’t know at the time that multiple people who had been shot, but said he got a call from a friend who is a retired police officer.

“He called me and said ‘Ron, y’all stay in or go somewhere,’” Foster said “We did.”

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Foster and other neighbors said Longmore could sometimes be seen walking along the road toward Hampton’s small downtown, about a mile (.6 kilometers) away. Foster said Longmore once approached him while Foster was mowing his yard.

“He came up to me and said ‘You’re the police, aren’t you?’” Foster said. “He came up to me and tried to argue with me.”

At the neighboring First Baptist Church of Hampton, members of the security team were approaching unfamiliar cars in the parking lot and keeping doors locked during Sunday services.

Longmore doesn’t appear to have a listed phone number and The Associated Press could not immediately find a family member or attorney who could speak on his behalf.

Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett said Saturday that his office is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to Longmore’s arrest and prosecution.

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He also addressed Longmore directly, saying: “Wherever you are, we will hunt you down in whatever hole you may be residing in and bring you into custody. Period.”

Hampton is known as the home of the Atlanta Motor Speedway, Georgia’s racetrack for NASCAR events. The town of 8,500 people has also benefitted from Georgia’s movie production boom.

The shootings marked the 31st mass killing of 2023, taking the lives of at least 153 people this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in a partnership with Northeastern University.

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Murphy reported from Indianapolis.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is sounding the alarm that the recent deployment of North Korean troops in Russia not only spells trouble for Ukraine, but also draws into question the stability and security of nations in Asia that are allied with the West. 

“North Korea’s actions aren’t random,” Zelenskyy said in a frank interview with South Korea’s public broadcasting network KBS on Thursday. “They have strategic goals.” 

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“Their actions aren’t coincidental – they want Russia’s support in return,” he added in comments also posted to his social media account on X.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, meets soldiers who took part in a training in North Korea on March 13. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

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Zelenskyy’s warning coincided with an announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who on Thursday held a joint press conference with their South Korean counterparts to confirm that some 10,000 North Korean soldiers have deployed to Russia for training — 80 percent of which are already in Kursk and expected to begin combat operations against Ukraine in the region within the “coming days.”

Zelenskyy, who described the threat now posed by North Korea as “a war of two countries against one,” echoed the imminent threat outlined by the U.S. officials and urged South Korea to start taking a bigger role in countering Russia’s near 1,000-day war against Ukraine. 

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“Whether these forces are in Kursk or on our occupied lands, they are preparing to fight Ukrainian soldiers. The world must recognize the gravity of this alliance,” he said. “South Korea has approached this war with caution. 

“But this isn’t just our war,” Zelenskyy continued. “Russia has brought in North Korea, and they won’t stop there. Iran, or even others, may be next.”

Zelenskyy said South Korea has already pledged to send a team of specialists to Ukraine where they will collaborate on defensive capabilities, including air defense, as North Korea also provides Russian with artillery and missiles. 

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A TV screen shows file images of North Korean soldiers during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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“If South Korea wants to understand the real capabilities of North Korea and its soldiers, it would benefit them to be here, to see and analyze the reality firsthand,” he said. “Consider how close North Korea is to Seoul — just 40-50 km [25-30 miles], the range of modern artillery, not even missiles.” 

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“Air defenses can’t counter artillery strikes. Our own towns were obliterated by artillery. I hope South Korea never faces this, but preparation is critical,” Zelenskyy added.

The Ukrainian president further suggested it was time that allies in the East look to form an “Asian Security Alliance” and called on nations like South Korea and Japan to lead the charge.

“And reaching out to China could be essential in countering North Korea’s aggression, as North Korea is actively pulling that region into a war,” he said, questioning China’s position as the threat of regional conflict expands. 

“I’m surprised by China’s silence,” Zelenskyy added. “I can’t say that China is on our side, but as a regional security guarantor, its silence is striking.”

The Ukrainian president highlighted how the unification of Russia and North Korea has direct implications for not only Ukraine, but for partners in the East and allies in the West. 

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“[Russian President Vladimir Putin is] testing the West, NATO, and even South Korea, observing their response to North Korean forces joining his campaign,” Zelenskyy said. “If the response is weak, we should expect the numbers of foreign soldiers on our soil to increase.”

The U.S. on Friday announced another $425 million defensive aid package for Ukraine from the Presidential Drawdown Authority. 

The package includes air defense interceptors, munitions for rocket systems and artillery, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons to help meet “Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs.”

The package notably did not include Tomahawk intermediate-range missiles, which, according to a leaked report to The New York Times this week, Zelenskyy had requested and been denied.

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Zelenskyy reportedly voiced his frustration on Wednesday not over the U.S. refusal to provide Ukraine with the advanced weaponry capable of flying some 1,500 miles, but over the fact that the request was leaked by an anonymous senior U.S. official.

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At least one person killed in Kharkiv as Pentagon announces $425m in additional military assistance for Ukraine.

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, hit a location used by policemen, killing at least one senior officer and wounding 30 other people, police said.

Four civilians were among those injured in the late afternoon attack on Friday, said a national police statement on the Telegram messaging app. It said S-300 missiles had been deployed by Russian forces.

“Today, the Russian enemy targeted a police station in the centre of Kharkiv with two missiles, killing a police officer,” Ivan Vygivsky, the head of Ukraine’s National Police, wrote on Facebook, naming the deceased as police colonel, Andriy Matviyenko.

He posted photos showing a huge crater next to a pile of rubble remaining from the building. In another picture, a policeman had his head bandaged and blood on his face.

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Pictures posted on Telegram by Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv region in Ukraine’s northeast, showed rescue teams sifting through mounds of rubble.

Syniehubov said some of the injured officers were in serious condition. He said an attack on the city earlier in the day had damaged an apartment block and several private houses.

Nadezhda, 52, stands in her house damaged during a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv [Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters]

Kharkiv, a city of 1.1 million, is about 30km (less than 20 miles) from the border and it has remained a frequent target of Russian air strikes. On Wednesday, a Russian-guided bomb struck a multistorey residence killing three people.

The city remained in Ukrainian hands throughout the initial unsuccessful advance by Russian forces on the capital, Kyiv, after their February 2022 invasion. But Moscow has increasingly used powerful glide bombs to pummel Ukrainian positions along the 1,000km (600-mile) line of contact and strike cities dozens of kilometres from the front line.

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Friday’s strike came on the same day that the United States announced an additional $425m in military assistance to Ukraine as Kyiv prepares to face Russian forces augmented by North Korean troops.

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Kyiv is facing new uncertainty amid reports thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed to Russia are nearing Ukraine’s border. Some 8,000 are preparing to join Russia’s fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days, according to the US and Ukrainian officials.

During a visit to Kyiv last week, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said more military aid was coming to Ukraine, and soon.

This new aid package includes weapons that will be pulled from existing US stockpiles, including air defence interceptors for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and 155mm artillery, and armoured vehicles and antitank weapons.

“The United States will continue to work … to meet Ukraine’s urgently needed battlefield requirements and defend against Russian aggression,” the US Department of Defence said in a statement.

The aid package announced by the Pentagon on Friday brings the total amount of military assistance the US has provided Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022 to $60.4bn.

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