Moultrie shooting spree – latest: McDonald’s manager named as one of three victims killed by employee
Kentavious White is believed to have shot and killed his 50-year-old mother, 74-year-old grandmother and his 41-year-old manager Amia Smith in Moultrie, Georgia
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A McDonald’s manager has been identified as one of the three victims killed by suspected gunman Kentavious White in a shooting spree across three different locations in Moultrie, Georgia, on Thursday.
White, 26, is believed to have shot and killed his 50-year-old mother at her home as well as his 74-year-old grandmother at her home next door in the early hours of the morning.
He then allegedly travelled to the fast food restaurant, where he was an employee, and shot dead his manager 41-year-old Amia Smith.
Surveillance footage, seen by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, captures White arriving at the restaurant and then getting Smith to come to the door. White then allegedly shot Smith before entering the McDonald’s and turning the gun on himself.
The motive behind the incident remains unknown.
A neighbour told The Associated Press that police had been called to the property that White shared with his mother just one day before the shooting spree after the suspect had come outside and fired a gun while shouting.
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Two out of the three women shot were the shooter's mother and grandmother, while the third was the manager of the McDonald's he worked at.
Residents in the area mourned the deaths of the slain women describing them as "amazing people".
"Both them were two of the most amazing people I've had the pleasure of being around," Tanner Strickland told WALB-TV.
"They both light up any room that they walk into. Both of them really have hearts of gold."
Sabrina Holweger, who works at an optometrist's office next to the McDonald's, told the Associated Press that she and a coworker arrived at work before 8am to find a woman's body gunned down and lying in a doorway of the restaurant, with police swarming around.
"It was really just scary not knowing if they had shot themselves," Ms Holweger said.
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George Suarez, the owner and operator of the McDonald's in Moultrie, Georgia, where 26-year-old Kentavious White shot 41-year-old Amia Smith who worked as store manager, said the restaurant will remain closed until further notice.
"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved restaurant manager, and our hearts go out to all the victims of this senseless act of violence," Mr Suarez said in a statement provided by McDonald's corporate office in Chicago.
Smith was the in-charge of the morning hours at the outlet, when she opened the door early morning to let White in for his shift.
Security footage from the outlet showed White shot the store manager after she arrived for the door, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
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McDonald’s manager Amia Smith identified as victim
A McDonald’s manager has been identified as one of the three victims killed by suspected gunman Kentavious White in a shooting spree across three different locations in Moultrie, Georgia, on Thursday.
White, 26, is believed to have shot and killed his 50-year-old mother at her home as well as his 74-year-old grandmother at her home next door in the early hours of the morning.
He then allegedly travelled to the fast food restaurant, where he was an employee, and shot dead his manager 41-year-old Amia Smith.
Gunman lured victim to McDonald’s door before shooting her
The gunman who killed three in a shooting spree on Thursday lured his victim to the door of the McDonald’s fast food restaurant before shooting her dead, it has been revealed.
Surveillance footage, seen by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, captures Kentavious White arriving at the restaurant and then getting his manager Amia Smith to come to the door.
White then allegedly shot Smith before entering the McDonald’s and turning the gun on himself, the GBI said.
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How the shooting spree unfolded
Four people were found across three locations in Moultrie, Georgia, on Thursday after suspected shooter Kentavious White went on a shooting spree before turning the gun on himself.
The GBI said that Moultrie Police Chief Sean Ladson requested assistance from the state agency at around 5.50am local time after a man and woman were found dead at a McDonald’s restaurant.
“As agents were headed to the scene, Chief Ladson called back and stated his officers had responded to a home in the 1100 block of 6th St. SW where they found a woman who had been shot but was still alive,” the GBI said.
The woman was taken to a local hospital where she later died.
A third woman was then found dead at the house next door.
Victims shot multiple times
The three victims killed by suspected gunman Kentavious White were all shot multiple times, according to officials.
Amia Smith, 41, White’s mother and grandmother all appeared to have been shot multiple times, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press.
The GBI Crime Lab will perform autopsies on the victims’ bodies.
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