More Details Released In South Georgia Shootings That Left 4 Dead

GEORGIA — The man who shot and killed three people and himself in Moultrie Thursday has been identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as 26-year-old Kentavious White.

The shootings took place at three separate locations in the rural South Georgia town.

Agents with the bureau responded to a McDonalds around 5:45 a.m. While heading to the scene, they were called two more times to respond to shootings in neighboring homes.

A woman had been shot in one of the homes but was alive, the agency said. She later died at a hospital. A second woman was found dead next door.

The two women were White's 50-year-old mother and 74-year-old grandmother, Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock told The Associated Press.

Surveillance footage from the McDonald's showed White getting his manager to come to the door and then shooting her, the agency said. She was identified as 41-year-old Amia Smith.

White then went into the eatery where he shot himself, according to the GBI.

Jerry Goodwin lived next door to the gunman and his mother and two doors down from the grandmother. He told The Associated Press on Thursday that his wife heard shots fired before 1 a.m. Thursday, while he was asleep. Goodwin said the young man who lives next door had come outside and fired a gun one day earlier in the week while shouting something, and that Moultrie police had responded.

Goodwin said he didn't know his neighbors well, although the man had come to his house after moving in several years ago to seek advice on installing a fence.

“I had never seen him hurt anybody or try to hurt anybody before this,” Goodwin said.

Sabrina Holweger, who works at an optometrist’s office next to the McDonald's, told the AP she and a coworker arrived at work before 8 a.m. to find a woman's body gunned down and lying in a doorway of the restaurant, with police swarming around.

“It was really just scary not knowing if they had shot themselves,” Holweger said.

She said police blocked off a main street that runs in front of the McDonald’s in the city of 15,000.

Holweger said the woman who died at the restaurant was the early morning manager, and that the shooter had been an employee there. Holweger said it appeared that the man killed the woman when she unlocked the door to let him in for an early-morning shift.

George Suarez, owner and operator of the McDonald's in Moultrie, said the restaurant will remain closed until further notice.

“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved restaurant manager, and our hearts go out to all the victims of this senseless act of violence," Suarez said in a statement provided by McDonald's corporate office in Chicago.

Anyone with information in the case is asked to call the GBI Thomasville Field Office at 229-225-4090 or the Moultrie Police Department at 229-985-3131.

Reporting and writing from The Associated Press was used in this report.