MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who police say killed his workplace manager, mother and grandmother before taking his own life had been involved in a shooting less than 48 hours earlier, law enforcement officials said Friday with.
Security video from a McDonald’s in the South Georgia town of Moultrie showed Kentavious White, 26, shooting dead store manager Amia Smith, 41, after leading her to the door before dawn Thursday morning, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Footage then showed White entering the restaurant and shooting himself.
After police discovered the McDonald’s shooting, police found White’s mother, 50-year-old Susie Arnold, and grandmother, 74-year-old Hilda Marshall, shot dead in their adjacent homes less than 2 miles away. Marshall was dead when police found her, while Arnold later died in a hospital.
All three women killed appeared to have been shot multiple times, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press.
Moultrie Police Detective Nathan Cato told The Moultrie Observer that White was involved in a shooting at the home he shared with Arnold on Tuesday. White was returning home on his lunch break when another man started shooting at him, Cato said. White fired back, but both men missed and police said no one was hurt.
Moultrie Police have had no other interactions with White before, Chief Sean Ladson said.
Rahiem Rashad Kinsey, 30, of Moultrie, a former McDonald’s employee, shot White, according to police. Kinsey was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon in the commission of a felony and remained in jail in Moultrie on Friday. It is unclear if he has an attorney speaking for him.
Felicia McGough, Smith’s cousin, described the woman’s murder to WALB-TV as “pointless.”
“And we still wonder to this day, why, why her?” said McGough.
Arnold and Marshall had worked at a local assisted living home.
The McDonald’s reopened Friday, with purple ribbons on the doors and employees wearing purple in honor of Smith.
The killings in Moultrie, in rural Colquitt County, about 95 kilometers northeast of Tallahassee, Fla., came a day after a gunman killed one person and injured four others at a doctor’s office in Atlanta.
