Multiple bodies found in rural home near Atlanta

[inanna]

Source: USA Today

Multiple bodies were found Tuesday afternoon in a home in Hiram, Ga., about 25 miles northwest of Atlanta, WXIA-TV reports.

The exact number of bodies, or the causes of deaths, were not immediately known, according to the Atlanta TV station.

Cpl. Ashley Henson of the Paulding County Sheriff's Office, said only that the bodies were discovered at a home on Ridge Road in the town of 2,300 people.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/06/multiple-bodies-found-in-hiram-ga-paulding-county/21344347/

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More from Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Sheriff’s office: Multiple bodies found in Paulding home

Multiple bodies have been found in a home in Paulding County, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said.

Investigators are not sure how many bodies are in the home in the 7400 block of Ridge Road, but Cpl. Ashley Henson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution officials had been in the house long enough to confirm that there is more than one body in the residence. Their causes of death have not been determined.

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It was not immediately clear why the sheriff’s office initially went to the home.

Ridge Road remained open around 3:45 p.m., but a heavy police presence was in the area of the incident.

Link: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/sheriffs-office-multiple-bodies-found-in-paulding-/njhFn/

[jberryhill]

1. You have to read quite a ways before it is implied they are dead ones

"Corpses" is a good word, since "bodies" aren't always dead the way "corpses" are.

[Sunlei]

2. "A corporal with the sheriff’s office did not come to work Tuesday", which prompted someone to.....

A corporal with the sheriff’s office did not come to work Tuesday, which prompted someone to come to his house.

[inanna]

3. Thanks for the update.

This was not in the initial report.

[gwheezie]

4. How sad

I'm not going to assume too much but the officer must be one of the deceased.

[katmondoo]

5. Seems like an awful lot of multiple family members being killed around the country

[inanna]

7. Yes and how sad.

[inanna]

6. Appears to be a murder-suicide:

Multiple bodies found at Georgia residence in possible murder-suicide: police

Reuters – 20 minutes ago

(Reuters) - Authorities discovered multiple bodies at a house outside Atlanta on Tuesday after being called there to check on a resident who had not shown up for work, police said.

After a preliminary look at the house, it was not immediately clear how many people were dead there, although there were more than two bodies and their deaths did not appear to be accidental, said Paulding County Sheriff's Office spokesman Corporal Ashley Henson.

It appeared likely that the deaths at the house in Douglasville, about 25 miles west of Atlanta, were the result of a murder-suicide, and authorities were not looking for any suspects, Henson said.

Link: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/multiple-bodies-found-georgia-residence-possible-murder-suicide-213048094.html

[Sister to TxTowelie]

8. It looks like a total of four dead.

Watching live report from sheriff's office on CBS.

Gunshot victims. Probably Glock 45 pistol per deputy.

2nd edit: sheriff deputy, his wife, a daughter (age 12), an older stepson (age 21) who appears to have commited the crimes and killed himself.

[inanna]

9. Thanks for update Sister to TxTowelie

Link to update:

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/sheriffs-office-multiple-bodies-found-in-paulding-/njhFn/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_sfp

Authorities believe Cpl. Sam Driskell’s stepson used the officer’s gun to kill the family members and himself.

Multiple bodies were found in the home in the 7400 block of Ridge Road on Tuesday afternoon, and authorities from two law enforcement agencies were investigating but were not actively looking for any suspects in connection to the deaths.

The property is owned by Sam Driskell, according to information from the Paulding County Board of Assessors. Driskell was a corporal in the Crimes Against Children unit of the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and had been employed by the agency for more than nine years.

Driskell did not come to work Tuesday, which prompted someone to come to his house, Channel 2 Action News reported. Those deputies found the bodies in the one-story house.

[tabasco]

10. If only the victims had guns!

They could have been disarmed then murdered.

[Sister to TxTowelie]

13. 'specially the twelve year old! nt

[maindawg]

11. Macdonalds ran out of French fires in Venezuala

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014981870
Could there be a connection?

[Brigid]

12. Really?