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Eight people were found dead overnight in an apparent mass murder and suicide and one person was shot and wounded in a sparsely populated area of rural southern Missouri, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said on Friday. One elderly woman was found dead of what appeared to be natural causes as authorities searched homes during the investigation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch quoted Texas County Coroner Tom Whittaker as saying the victims were three women and four men, and that the elderly woman who was found dead was the shooter's mother. “Anytime you see families that go to this level of violence, it’s a shame.” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon called the shooting spree a "horrific tragedy." The events unfolded around 10 p.m. Thursday night when the Texas County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of a disturbance involving a weapon at a residence in the unincorporated community of Tyrone.
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