Gunman shoots two relatives and McDonald’s worker before killing himself

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement only that there had been “multiple fatalities” at different crime scenes in the area.

Police vehicles sit parked in front of a McDonald’s restaurant as police investigate a shooting in which multiple people were killed Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Moultrie, Ga. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that there is more than one crime scene, including one at the McDonald’s restaurant. (Kamira Smith/The Moultrie Observer via AP)

A Georgia man shot two of his relatives and a fast food worker dead before killing himself on Thursday in rural south Georgia, the local coroner has said.

The shooter killed his mother and grandmother at two neighbouring homes and killed a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown Moultrie, Colquitt County coroner C Verlyn Brock told the Associated Press.