Police in Georgia, a state in the southeast of the United States, are looking for a suspect who shot and killed four people but is still on the loose.
The victims were fatally shot on Saturday morning by the suspect, a 40-year-old man named Andre Longmore, in a suburban area of Hampton, Georgia’s Henry County, about 46 kilometers (29 miles) south of Atlanta.
James Turner, the Hampton Police Chief, identified the victims as being all adults—three men and one woman—and noted that the suspect was “armed and dangerous.”
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Longmore has been charged with murder, according to Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett, and an arrest warrant has been issued.
Scandrett said, “I’m gonna say this straight to you, Mr. Longmore: Wherever you are, we’ll hunt you down in any hole you may be living in and bring you to custody, period”.
The law enforcement official added, “Anyone that has any information, let us know because we will be actively looking for this individual until he’s caught,” and announced a $10,000 reward for any information that results in Longmore’s capture.
The unrelenting use of firearms and the killing of innocent people across the US was reported to have just on Friday set a new, somber record for the deadliest six months of mass killings in the nation since at least 2006.
The Associated Press cited a database maintained by the agency and the national newspaper USA Today in collaboration with Northeastern University as evidence that in the first half of this year, the United States experienced a staggering 28 mass killings, all but one of which involved guns and left 140 people dead and hundreds injured in a never-ending cycle of violence.
The report stated that the 2023 milestone “bested the previous record of 27 mass killings, which was only established in the second half of 2022.”
It quoted James Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, as saying that he “never imagined records like this when he started managing the database about five years ago.”
