a fatally has killed at best eight people in a series of slayings over five towns in the southern us state of alabama before killing himself . officials say there were at least twelve separate shooting attacks . the gunman fired on homes , a petrol station , apartments and vehicle in samson and others near the georgia fence . seven others - even a father - were killed in another home . several of the victims are reported to have been members of the gunman ' s family . the stabbed has not been formally identified , but was named in the local herald as john bannerman .
Michael McLendon has killed his child in Samson.