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By Staff Writers
KY3 News
Friday, Feb 27, 2015
Investigators in Texas County are trying to piece together the detail of a shooting spree that left seven people dead in four different locations. The suspect in the shootings is also dead.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports it began at about 10:15 p.m. Thursday when the Texas County Sheriff’s Department requested assistance with a disturbance involving a weapon at a home in Tyrone, Missouri. A juvenile female caller told authorities she was in the home and apparently heard gun shots. She made the call from a neighbor’s house
Texas County deputies reported finding found two deceased persons at this residence. Further investigation revealed five additional people dead and one person wounded in three additional homes.
The apparent suspect, a 36-year-old man from Tyrone, was found dead in a vehicle in Shannon County from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Authorities say they found a ninth person dead in the search, but say that person apparently died of natural causes.
The investigation is continuing by the Texas County Sheriff’s Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control.
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