And in Alabama. 30yo Jacob Lee Shaffer of Tennessee is the suspect for killing 6 people in 2 States. At the time Shaffer was arrested, he was just sitting at his front porch in his Licoln County home - waiting for the police to arrive. Link
Authorities have arrested a 30-year-old Tennessee man in connection with the killing of six people -- five in Tennessee and one in neighboring Alabama.
Jacob Shaffer of Fayetteville was arrested Saturday after three people were found dead at a house in the town, 90 miles south of Nashville. Two other victims were found in another residence on the same street, South Lincoln Road, officials said.
About 30 miles away in Huntsville, Alabama, a sixth person was found dead at a business, authorities said.
Shaffer was in one of the Fayetteville residences when Lincoln County sheriff's deputies arrived, authorities said.
Some of the five victims are related, and the people were killed either Friday night or early Saturday, said Kristin Helm of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Officials said the killings were related to a domestic dispute, but she did not elaborate.
Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder called the slayings "one of the worst crimes Lincoln County has ever seen." He didn't describe how the victims died.
It was not immediately clear when or how the victim in Huntsville was killed either."We have no clue yet as to what unfolded there and how it relates to here," said Huntsville police Sgt. Mickey Allen.
This is it as of Sunday morning 7/19/09 @ 10AM EST.
This is all the information about this mass killings. No information about the motives, about the connections between the victims and the assailant ... nada.
Right now, just the facts of the crime scene and the arrest.
Everything is still under investigation and the suspect is being interrogated.
The good news is that the shooter gave himself up and no manhunt is needed. No more potential lives would be lost if Shaffer was on the run.
This will be First Degree Murder! Is there a death penalty in Tennessee? 30yo and will be spending life in prison. Shame!
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