TYRONE (Web Desk) – A gunman went on a house to house shooting in a small town in Missouri, killing 7 people in a result before he took his own life, said police officials.
The gunman, identified as Joseph Jesse Aldridge, carried out the killings with a .45-caliber handgun Thursday night or early Friday at four homes in Tyrone.
Aldridge’s body was found before dawn Friday in a pickup truck in a neighboring county. No suicide note was found.
The police said four of the dead — two couples — were cousins of Aldridge’s. The names of three other victims and a person who was wounded were being withheld.
Authorities said the motive remained unclear. But investigators found Aldridge’s 74-year-old mother dead, apparently of natural causes, on a couch at the home she shared with her son, officials said.
