Alabama: Man shoots wife, their teenage daughter, wife's sister, sister's son

[Ryan in Maine]

and then shoots himself.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_us/alabama_four_dead

  By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer Jay Reeves, Associated Press Writer   – 1 hr 19 mins ago

PRICEVILLE, Ala. – A man facing a divorce trial shot and killed his estranged wife, their teenage daughter and two other relatives in rural north Alabama before returning to his home in a nearby town and killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.

Kevin Garner's body was found Tuesday afternoon near his Priceville home, which burned to the ground overnight. His divorce trial was to start Wednesday.

Garner apparently shot himself in the chest, said Travis Clemmons, chief investigator for the sheriff's office in Lauderdale County, where the four bodies were found earlier in the day in a home in Green Hill, a small community near the Tennessee line.

The victims were identified as Garner's estranged wife, Tammy, 40; their 16-year-old daughter, Chelsie; Garner's sister, Karen Beaty of Illinois; and Beaty's 11-year-old son, whose name was not released.

Investigators said the four were shot, apparently with a handgun, around midnight Monday. They did not know if Kevin Garner was licensed to carry a firearm.

It was one of eight mass shootings around the country — and the third in Alabama — in the last month that have left grief-stricken communities in shock.

Almost never any good news coming from the media any more.

This idiot does it over a divorce and complications leading up to said divorce? Divorces happen every day without any killing. No excuse.

And again, time proves that armed will always conquer unarmed.

[BridgeRunner]

My only thought: at least he isn't identified in the article as mentally ill.  Very likely that he isn't, anyway.

[Standing Wolf]

Almost never any good news coming from the media any more.

Just a coincidence, of course.

[Nitrogen]

Damn guns.  This one must have broken out of the safe, jumped in someones hand, taken over their mind, and caused all this tragedy.  If only we'd ban the things...