8 dead in shooting rampage in Mississippi; suspect arrested
A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife over their children was
arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left
eight people dead, including a sheriff's deputy.
The shootings took place at three homes Saturday night — two in Brookhaven and
one in Bogue Chitto — about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of Jackson, after
authorities got a call about a domestic dispute, the Mississippi Bureau of
Investigation said.
The dead included two boys, investigators said. Godbolt was listed in good
condition at a hospital with a gunshot wound; authorities did not say how he was
wounded.
Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said charges had yet to be
filed and it was too soon to say what the motive was. Authorities gave no
details on the relationship between Godbolt and the victims.
However, Godbolt himself shed some light on what happened in a video
interview with the newspaper as he sat with his hands cuffed behind his back on
the side of a road.
Godbolt said he was talking with his wife and in-laws when somebody called
authorities.
"I was having a conversation with her stepdaddy and her mama and her, my
wife, about me taking my children home," he said. "Somebody called the officer,
people that didn't even live at the house. That's what they do. They
intervene."
"They cost him his life," he said, apparently referring to the deputy. "I'm
sorry."
The stepfather-in-law, Vincent Mitchell, said in an interview that Godbolt's
wife and their two children had been staying at his Bogue Chitto home for about
three weeks after she left her husband.
After the sheriff's deputy arrived at the house, Godbolt looked as if he was
about to leave, then reached into his back pocket, pulled a gun and opened fire,
Mitchell said.
Mitchell said he escaped along with Godbolt's wife. But he said three family
members were killed in his home: his wife, her sister and one of the wife's
daughters.
"I'm devastated. It don't seem like it's real," Mitchell said.
The slain deputy was identified as William Durr, 36.
Godbolt said he did not intend for police to capture him alive.
"My intentions was to have God kill me. I ran out of bullets," he said.
"Suicide by cop was my intention."
Source: Associated Press
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