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.
Neighbour heard shots fired hours before police arrived
A neighbour of the accused gunman has said his wife heard gunshots hours before police arrived on the scene of the suspect’s home.
Jerry Goodwin told The Associated Press that his wife heard shots fired before 1am on Thursday morning while he was asleep.
It was around 6am when police responded to the scene to find one woman with gunshot wounds.
They then found another woman shot and wounded in the next door house.
It is not clear if anyone called 911 to report the sound of shots being fired.
Witnesses speak out about horror scene
Sabrina Holweger, who works at an optometrist’s office next to the McDonald’s where the shooting unfolded, told the AP that she and a coworker arrived at work just 8am to stumble upon a horror scene.
She said that police were everywhere and she could see a woman’s body gunned down and lying in a doorway of the McDonald’s.
“It was really just scary not knowing if they had shot themselves,” she said.
Ms Holweger said she recognised the victim as the early morning manager at the fast food joint where the suspected shooter also worked.
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All three individuals killed during a shooting spree in Moultrie, Georgia have been named
On Thursday, Kentavious White, 26, allegedly shot and killed three people, each in a separate location, before turning the gun on himself.
All of the victims have been named.
They are: Susie Arnold, 50, Hilda Marshall, 74, and Amia Smith, 41.
Ms Arnold was Mr White's mother, and Ms Marshall was Mr White's grandmother. Ms Smith was a manager at the McDonald's where he worked.
Ms Arnold and Ms Marshall lived next to each other. Both homes were down the road from the McDonald's where Mr White was employed. He ultimately shot himself, dying from self-inflicted gunshot wound, inside the restaurant.
Moultrie gunman believed to be victim in a shooting days before murder spree
Police say Kentavious White, 26, the suspect in a string of shootings that left three women dead on Thursday, was himself the victim of gun violence just days earlier.
MPD Investigator Nathan Cato told The Moultrie Observer that Mr White had been shot at by a former co-worker on Tuesday. Mr White was not injured, but did fire back at his attacker.
Rahiem Rashad Kinsey, 30, was arrested in connection with the shooting that allegedly targeted Mr White.