Five Dead After Shooting at Douglas, Georgia, Home

Five people were found dead after a shooting at a home on Robin Lane in Douglas, Georgia, late Friday night, police said. Officers responding to a 911 call found the victims with gunshot wounds and pronounced all five dead at the scene, according to the early report. Douglas Now described the shooting as an apparent murder-suicide, reporting that a male shooter killed four people inside the home before killing himself. Authorities had not formally released the names or ages of those killed or announced a motive as of Friday night. The sequence reported from inside the residence had not been formally confirmed by law enforcement in the material available. Douglas police officers and Coffee County sheriff’s deputies responded to the call and remained at the scene. The home is in the Touchton Woods neighborhood, on the south side of the city. No further details about the people killed or their relationships were available in the early account. The deaths came amid a series of shootings in Georgia over three consecutive weekends. The Douglas incident was described as the third weekend in a row involving a mass shooting or other gun violence that killed or injured multiple people.