Six people were shot to death inside a South Carolina home on Tuesday night, CNN reported.
According to FOX Carolina, police discovered the victims inside a house off the Callison Highway in Greenwood County after the alleged shooter called 911. The suspect said he was feeling edgy and planned on "hurting himself."
Moments later, a neighbor called 911 to report hearing gunshots. The neighbor also said that children from the Callison Highway residence had fled the scene and were in her home, NBC News reported.
Police officers and the county's SWAT team surrounded the home and waited for hours while hostage negotiators tried to make contact with the people inside, The Index Journal reported. When no one responded, the SWAT team entered the building and discovered the victims and the suspected killer.
Greenwood County Sheriff Tony Davis said all of the victims had died from gunshot wounds. Two were children. At this time, the identities of the victims have not been released.
The gunman is also dead, Davis said.
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GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (AP) — Six people were found dead in a home by SWAT team members who stormed in after police unsuccessfully tried to make contact with someone after receiving a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.
Authorities found the bodies of four adults and two children, including that of whom they believe to be the man who called police, Greenwood County Sheriff's Office spokesman John Long told The Associated Press. The ages of the dead ranged from 9 years old to early 50s, Long said. He could not immediately say how the six were killed.
A preliminary investigation indicates the deaths were related to "a domestic-related incident," Long said. He declined to call it a murder-suicide.
Officers first went to the home in Greenwood County after receiving a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself, Long said. He said while police were on their way, one of the man's neighbors called 911 saying four children from that address had arrived at her house and told her a shot had been fired. He said the children remained at her house.
After about an hour and "several unsuccessful attempts" by officers to make contact with anyone in the home, the SWAT team entered and discovered the bodies, Long said.
The county coroner's office did not immediately respond to an email seeking the deceased's cause of death and identities.
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