Mississippi mass murder: Gunman kills six people, including his ex-wife and stepfather.

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Mississippi mass murder: Gunman kills six people, including his ex-wife and stepfather.

February 19, 2023February 19, 2023

Investigators are trying to figure out what drove the lone shooter to kill six people, including his ex-wife and stepfather, on Friday in a small rural village in northern Mississippi, the sheriff said.

At around 11 a.m., Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance reported that 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum, who a family friend claimed had a history of mental illness, opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns, killing a man who was sitting in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck parked outside a convenience store in Arkabutla, close to the Tennessee state line.

As a second 911 call informed authorities of a second shooting a few miles away, deputies were securing the crime site. When they arrived at a house, they discovered a woman who had been shot dead and her current husband injured. The sheriff identified the victim as Crum’s ex-wife.

According to Lance, Crum was apprehended by deputies outside his own home and taken into custody. They discovered two handymen shot to death behind the house—one on the road and the other in an SUV. They found Crum’s stepfather and stepfather’s sister remains inside a nearby house.

Everyone commits crimes, and occasionally there are violent crimes here as well, but nothing on this scale, according to Lance. The troubling issue, he continued, is that we don’t know what caused this.

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