Willie Cory Godbolt is in custody after 8 people were killed in a shooting last night in Lincoln County, Mississippi. Authorities claim the violence began during an argument with his wife about their children. Deputy William Durr, along with three women, was killed first at 11:30 pm at a home in Bogue Chitto, about 70 miles south of the capital.

The next shooting occurred in Brookhaven, Mississippi at a different home where two young boys were found dead. The final shooting occurred later on at a different location, with a man and a woman found dead at the scene. Godbolt claimed that he intended to commit suicide by cop, but ran out of bullets.

'I was having a conversation with her stepdaddy and her mama ( and her, my wife, about me taking my children home,' Godbolt told the newspaper. 'Somebody called the officer, people that didn't even live at the house. That's what they do. They intervene.'They cost him his life, I'm sorry.'

Durr was a married father who had been a two-year veteran of the Police Department. Information on the other victims has not yet been released.

Source: DailyMail