ARKABUTLA, Miss. (SONNA) \u2014 A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in a tiny rural community in northern Mississippi, the sheriff said, leaving investigators searching for clues to what motivated the rampage.<\/p>\n
Armed with a shotgun and two handguns, 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum opened fire at about 11 a.m. and killed a man in the driver\u2019s seat of a pickup truck parked outside a convenience store in Arkabutla, near the Tennessee state line, Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance said.<\/p>\n
Deputies were working the crime scene when a second 911 call alerted authorities to another shooting a few miles away. After arriving at a home, they found a woman, whom the sheriff identified as Crum\u2019s ex-wife, shot dead and her current husband wounded.<\/p>\n
Lance said deputies caught up with Crum outside his own home and arrested him. Behind the residence they found two handymen slain by gunfire \u2014 one in the road, another in an SUV. Inside a neighboring home, they discovered the bodies of Crum\u2019s stepfather and his stepfather\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody has crime, and from time to time we have violent crime, but certainly nothing of this magnitude,\u201d Lance said in an interview. He added: \u201cWithout being able to say what triggered this, that\u2019s the scary part.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crum, 52, was jailed without bond on a single charge of capital murder, and Lance said investigators were working to bring additional charges. It was not immediately known if Crum had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.<\/p>\n
That initial murder charge was for the killing of Chris Eugene Boyce, 59, the man who was shot outside the store. Boyce\u2019s brother was in the truck with him at the time and fled, according to the sheriff. Lance added that Crum chased the brother through a wooded area before he escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n
Deputy Tate County Coroner Ernie Lentz identified the others killed as Debra Crum, 60; Charles Manuel, 76; John Rorie, 59; George McCain, 73; and Lynda McCain, 78. Lentz also said Boyce was from Lakeland, Florida.<\/p>\n
Ethan Cash, who lives near the store, told\u00a0WREG-TV\u00a0he heard a gunshot from inside his house.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had just woken up and I look back here, and I see dude walking back here with a shotgun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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