to find a woman's body gunned down and lying in a doorway of the restaurant, with police swarming around.

Sabrina Holweger, who works at an optometrist’s office next to the McDonald's, told the AP she and a coworker arrived at work before 8 a.m.

Both of them really have hearts of gold.” “They both light up any room that they walk into. “Both them were two of the most amazing people I’ve had the pleasure of being around,” Strickland told WALB-TV. Moultrie resident Tanner Strickland said he knew two of the slain women. A person answering the phone at police headquarters said Ladson was referring all calls to the GBI. Moultrie Police Chief Sean Ladson did not immediately return email messages seeking comment. “I had never seen him hurt anybody or try to hurt anybody before this,” Goodwin said. Goodwin said he didn't know his neighbors well, although the man had come to his house after moving in several years ago to seek advice on installing a fence. He said the coroner later retrieved two more bodies. Goodwin said police and an ambulance arrived just before 6 a.m., with the ambulance immediately taking one person away. However, it appears police did not respond immediately on Thursday. Goodwin said the young man who lives next door had come outside and fired a gun one day earlier in the week while shouting something, and that Moultrie police had responded. He told The Associated Press on Thursday that his wife heard shots fired before 1 a.m. Jerry Goodwin lived next door to the gunman and his mother and two doors down from the grandmother. The state law enforcement agency said its investigation is ongoing. Moultrie police called in the GBI take the lead in investigating the case, which often happens with major crimes in Georgia. Brock said his office was working to contact next of kin. Their names were not immediately released. “I can’t for the life of me figure out what provoked him in that way,” Brock said in a phone interview.īrock said the slain women were the gunman's 50-year-old mother and 74-year-old grandmother, who lived next door to each other. Both women died - one after being taken to a hospital, the GBI said.Īll three of the slain women appeared to have been shot multiple times, Colquitt County Coroner C. They also found two women related to White had been shot at neighboring homes less than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away. Police found the manager, identified as 41-year-old Amia Smith, and White both dead when they arrived, the GBI said in a news release Thursday evening.

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