Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, was arrested shortly after the Tuesday morning rampage that left three white men dead.

An eight-year-old girl who was abducted while playing outside a California home escaped from her captor after a driver recognised the suspect’s vehicle and cut it off.

Six coroners, three times the typical weekend staff, worked in shifts to identify the nine victims of a mass killing in California.

A man suspected of murdering nine members of his family was apparently involved in polygamy and incest, fathering two of the victims with his own daughters, police said.

A man has been arrested after the bodies of a woman, a teenager and seven children were found in a home, police in California said today.