Global Courant 2023-05-06 08:08:52
MOULTRIE, Ga. — A man in Georgia who, according to police, killed his manager, mother and grandmother before committing suicide was involved in a shootout less than 48 hours earlier, police said Friday.
Security video from a McDonald’s in the South Georgia town of Moultrie showed Kentavious White, 26, shooting store manager Amia Smith, 41, after calling her to the door before dawn Thursday morning, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. The footage then showed White entering the restaurant and shooting himself.
After finding the shooting at the McDonald’s, police found White’s mother, 50-year-old Susie Arnold, and grandmother, 74-year-old Hilda Marshall, shot to death in their adjoining 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 investigator Nathan Cato told The Moultrie Observer that White had been involved in a shootout on Tuesday at the house he shared with Arnold. White had come home during his lunch break when another man started shooting at him, Cato said. White returned fire, but both men missed and police said no one was injured.
Moultrie police had no other prior interactions with White, Chief Sean Ladson said.
Rahiem Rashad Kinsey, 30, of Moultrie, a former McDonald’s employee, shot at White, according to police. Kinsey was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon while committing a crime, and was jailed in Moultrie on Friday. It is unclear if he has a lawyer who can speak for him.
Felicia McGough, Smith’s cousin, described the woman’s murder as “pointless” to WALB-TV.
“And we still wonder: why, why them?” McGough said.
Arnold and Marshall had worked at a local nursing home.
The McDonald’s reopened Friday, with purple ribbons on the doors and employees wearing purple to honor Smith.
The murders in Moultrie, in rural Colquitt County about 60 miles northeast of Tallahassee, Florida, came a day after a gunman in Atlanta killed one person and wounded four others in a medical office.
