Mississippi slaughter: 8 killings by one man in a single night

It began about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, when a sheriff’s deputy responded to a domestic disturbance call at a home in Bogue Chitto, Miss.
There Godbolt demanded that his estranged wife give up their two children, the wife’s stepfather, Vincent Mitchell, told the Associated Press. Godbolt and his wife had been “going back and forth for a couple of years with that domestic violence,” Mitchell said.At first, when the sheriff’s deputy arrived, it seemed Godbolt would comply and leave.
But then, according to Mitchell and authorities, he pulled a gun out of his back pocket and began shooting, killing the deputy — identified as Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff William Durr — along with Godbolt’s mother-in-law, Barbara Mitchell, 55; her daughter, Toccarra May, 35; and Mitchell’s sister, Brenda May, 53
It was around this time that Tiffany Blackwell, a mother from Brookhaven, Miss., heard from a friend in that Bogue Chitto home that Godbolt had come in and shot somebody. Blackwell, her husband, and her sister, Shayla Edwards, drove the 10 or 11 miles to Bogue Chitto to check on their friends, thinking there would be no harm in leaving several older children in their home at night, the Clarion-Ledger reported.
“All I know is that while we were consoling his wife’s family, he was at my sister’s home killing our children,” Shayla Edwards said.
Caleb Edwards, 15, and his younger brother, Austin, were in the living room playing video games with friends when they heard the gunshot, thinking at first it was a firecracker. Their cousin, Jordan Blackwell, 18, was talking to his girlfriend on FaceTime walking down the hallway in the Brookhaven, Miss., home.