- A 40-year-old man who carried out a shooting in Hampton, Georgia, resulting in the deaths of four people, had a history of mental health issues and resisted treatment, according to his mother.
- Andre Longmore went on a shooting spree in his neighborhood, targeting older adults before engaging in a shootout with law enforcement officers, which left him dead.
- While Longmore’s motive remains unclear, his mother revealed that he had experienced a mental breakdown in the past and had refused medical help.
The 40-year-old man who shot four people in the country’s 31st mass killing this year needed mental help for nearly a decade but his family and officials couldn’t force him to get treatment, his mother said.
Andre Longmore walked through his neighborhood in the semi-rural suburb of Hampton, Georgia, on Saturday and fatally shot four neighbors, all older adults. The killings set off a massive search that ended Sunday with Longmore dead in a shootout in another suburb about 15 miles north of Hampton. The exchange of gunfire wounded a sheriff’s deputy and two police officers, who all were expected to recover.
Longmore had a “mental breakdown” in 2014, leading to an inpatient hospital stay, his mother Lorna Dennis, told WSB-TV on Sunday.
She said her son “kept deteriorating” but refused to seek medical attention, and that officials said they couldn’t force him to seek care.
“It’s hard to lose your son, and it’s also hard to know your son cost the life of so many people,” Dennis said.
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She said Longmore had served in the Army, was living with her in recent years, and that she hoped that relatives of the victims could find peace with God.
“I feel so much for the families, and that’s why I just want to say I’m very, very sorry. I know words cannot really comfort them from me at this time, but I know there is a comforter, and they can refer to him at any time,” Dennis said.
The Army says Longmore was a…
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