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Nine killed in US mass shooting

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AAP ,
Publish Date
Sat, 28 Feb 2015, 8:43AM

Nine killed in US mass shooting

Author
AAP ,
Publish Date
Sat, 28 Feb 2015, 8:43AM

Nine people are dead following a mass murder in rural Missouri, in which the suspected gunman took his own life.

With an investigation still underway, police in the Midwestern state said on Friday it appeared that seven people were shot and killed in four different residences in the small Bible Belt town of Tyrone.

An eighth person, described as an elderly woman, was found dead in a fifth house, apparently "from natural causes," the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

"The apparent suspect, a 36-year-old male from Tyrone, was found dead in a vehicle... in (neighbouring) Shannon County from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound," added police spokesman Sergeant Jeff Kinder.

"There are a total of nine deceased individuals, including the elderly female and the suspect," he said.

No names were released pending notification of next of kin, and the relationship between the suspected killer and other deceased individuals was not disclosed.

"You know what? In our job we see a lot of bad stuff - and this is bad," said Kinder.

Tyrone is a roadside town of 2,000 in south-central Missouri, in a 97 per cent white county in which one in five inhabitants live under the poverty line.

Yellow police tape surrounded one of the crime scenes, a simple one-story white house with a small front porch, sitting amid a blanket of snow under a blue sky.

First word about the shootings came at 10:30 pm Thursday.

Police found two dead at that first house, the spokesman said, then five other victims in three other residences.

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