Five people, including a 5-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy, were killed Saturday night in a suspected murder-suicide near Atlanta, police said.
The three deceased adults were identified as a 32-year-old man, a 43-year-old woman and a 26-year-old woman, cops said. Investigators did not say which person was the shooter.
Officers responded to an apartment in DeKalb County, just east of Atlanta, around 7:30 p.m. Saturday for a welfare check. They arrived to find five people inside dead from gunshot wounds.
Though authorities did not publicly identify the victims, they suspected it was a domestic-related murder-suicide, and did not reveal any more details about what preceded the shooting.
There have been 479 mass shootings in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which classifies any shooting with four or more victims as a mass shooting.
However, there have only been 28 mass murders with at least four deceased victims. Saturday’s Atlanta-area shooting was the most recent such incident.
The deadliest shooting this year occurred in January, when a 23-year-old man fatally shot eight people at three sites around Joliet, Ill.
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