{"id":223862,"date":"2020-06-06T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=223862"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:40:54","slug":"seven-people-and-a-dog-found-shot-dead-inside-a-house-in-alabama-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=223862","title":{"rendered":"Seven people and a dog found shot dead inside a house in Alabama | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"
Seven people have been found shot dead inside a house in Alabama, police have said.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to a call about a shooting in Talacuh Rd in Valhermoso Springs just before 11.30pm on Friday.<\/p>\n

They arrived to find a blaze at the property which they quickly put out before firefighters arrived, and discovered the bodies of a girl, two women and four men in different areas of the house.<\/p>\n

A dog was also found shot dead at the property.<\/p>\n

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Deputies have responded to a gunshot call in the 500 block of Talacuh Rd in Valhermoso Springs. Multiple fatalities. Scene secure. Investigation underway. pic.twitter.com\/qvM384AKhc<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neighbours reportedly heard gunshots going off intermittently for an hour. Some of those killed were shot more than once.<\/p>\n

Six of the seven victims have been named.<\/p>\n

They are Tammy England Muzzey, 45, and 21-year-old Emily Brooke Payne, both of Valhermoso Springs; Roger Lee Jones Jr, 19, of Decatur; Jeramy Wade Roberts, 31, of Athens and William Zane Hodgin, 18, of Sommerville.<\/p>\n

A 17-year-old girl is yet to be identified.<\/p>\n

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Mike Swafford, a spokesman for Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, said the fire was near the bodies and may have been set in an attempt to destroy evidence.<\/p>\n

“It is a horrific scene and to be able to process it will take some time,” he told WAAY-TV.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have a motive at this time. We don’t have a determined suspect at this time.<\/p>\n

“Investigators are following leads to piece together exactly what happened and who was involved.<\/p>\n

“We can say we don’t believe there is an active threat to anybody in the area.”<\/p>\n

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Police officers are familiar with the residence, having answered several calls there in the past few years for issues including drugs, robbery, trespassing and disturbances, he told The Decatur Daily.<\/p>\n

He said authorities are looking into the possibility of the killings being drug-related.<\/p>\n

“Our theory right now is whoever did this, came in here for a reason, did it and left,” he added.<\/p>\n

Coroner Jeff Chunn said: “In my 37 years as a paramedic, deputy coroner and coroner, this is the most major crime scene in Morgan County.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven people have been found shot dead inside a house in Alabama, police have said. Officers responded to a call about a shooting in Talacuh Rd in Valhermoso Springs just before 11.30pm on Friday. They arrived to find a blaze at the property which they quickly put out before firefighters arrived, and discovered the bodies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773],"tags":[11038,7162],"class_list":["post-223862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-alabama","tag-murder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}