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April 25, 2016

8 Family Members Shot to Death in Ohio; 5 Killed in Georgia
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Eight members of a single family have been shot to death in rural Ohio.
Authorities say seven adults and a 16-year-old, all members of the
Rhoden family, were shot in the head, execution-style, most while they
slept. They were killed early Friday at four crime scenes within a short
distance of each other. Ohio Attorney General Mike De Wine said the
shootings were not random.

Mike De Wine: "This was a preplanned execution of eight individuals. It
was a sophisticated operation. And those who carried it out were trying
to do everything that they could do to hinder the investigation and
their prosecution."

Meanwhile in Georgia, a man is suspected of fatally shooting five people
at two separate locations, then killing himself as part of what
authorities described as a domestic dispute. Wayne Anthony Hawes
reportedly killed a number of his wife's relatives after she left him.


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