A 14-year-old confessed to killing all five of his family members in an Alabama home

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By Christina Maxouris and Joe Sutton, CNN

Updated 9:01 AM ET, Tue September 3, 2019

(CNN)A 14-year-old confessed to shooting all five members of his family in an Alabama residence, authorities said.

The teen was "assisting investigators in locating the weapon, a 9mm handgun that he said he tossed nearby," the Limestone County Sheriff's Office said in a tweet.
Earlier Tuesday, the sheriff's office said three of the five people shot in the Elkmont residence were confirmed dead at the scene and two were airlifted in critical condition.
The office later confirmed the two people in critical condition died.

Link to tweet

This is a developing story, more updates to come.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/us/alabama-residence-shooting/index.html

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I'm just numb.

[MoonRiver]

1. Horrible!

Any clues as to his motive?

[raccoon]

2. Reminds me of Ronnie de Feo, who killed his entire

family in 1974 in amityville, NY. The real Amityville horror. Except that Ronnie de Feo was 23 at the time of the murders.

[uponit7771]

3. Damn, I know someone who did just this in high school ... killed his whole family

[Coventina]

6. So do I. Although he was an only child so he "only" killed his parents.

He buried them in the backyard, and then threw an epic rager.

None of the party-goers had any idea there were fresh bodies in the backyard.

It was just a few blocks from me. I was not one of the popular crowd, so I was not invited.
Not sorry!

[Bayard]

4. How did I know

Just by the headline, that he used a gun, and not a knife of an ax? I'm thinking its because a gun is "cleaner". You don't have to get close enough to a person to get their blood on you, or look into their eyes.

[aikoaiko]

5. In 2009 Guy Heinz killed 8 family in their mobile home.

Beat them with a shotgun barrel.

I can’t imagine the rage (drug induced or not) it would take to do that.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guy-heinze-jr-ga-man-guilty-of-killing-father-and-7-others-in-mobile-home-but-wont-get-death-penalty/#x

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. You sort of wonder what might have happened instead

had there been no gun in the home.