29 May, 2017
Godbolt had a different message - he said he did not intend for police to capture him alive.
When the sheriff's deputy arrived, Godbolt looked as if he were about to leave, then reached into his back pocket, pulled a gun and opened fire, Mitchell said.
A man who argued with his estranged wife over their children has been arrested after a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural MS that left eight people dead, including a sheriff's deputy.
Durr had a wife and 11-year-old son, and was training to participate in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program in local schools, according to The Daily Leader.
Two of the homes are in Brookhaven and one is in Bogue Chitto.
The lives of Willie Cory Godbolt's victims were taken in three separate crime scenes in the southern U.S. state of Mississippi.
Off duty, he was a ventriloquist who took his puppets to schools and churches and performed for children.
Vincent Mitchell told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday the slayings of eight people "all stemmed from domestic violence". In addition to the sheriff's deputy, family members told affiliate WAPT that the victims at the first location included the mother, aunt and sister of Godbolt's estranged wife. He says: "I'm devastated. It don't seem like it's real".
He's the stepfather-in-law of suspect Willie Corey Godbolt.
"We was talking about me trying to take the children home. somebody called the officer. that's what they do, they intervene".
'Somebody called the officer, people that didn't even live at the house. "He was just there", Godbolt said of the officer.
According to the MBI, other agencies involved in the case include the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the Bureau of Narcotics, Pike, Walthall, Franklin, Copiah, Lawrence, Amite counties sheriff's departments, the Brookhaven Police Department and the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Authorities say a shooting spree that left eight people dead in MS began with a call regarding a domestic dispute.
The deputy killed in a shooting rampage Saturday night has been identified. More bodies were found at two other crime scenes - two boys were slain at the second location and a male and a female victim were discovered at the third.
Lincoln County Sheriff William Durr was a 36-year-old father and husband.
Names of the other victims were not immediately released.
'I ain't fit to live, not after what I done, ' a handcuffed Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, told The Clarion-Ledger newspaper after his arrest. The shootings occurred at three homes in rural Lincoln County, about 70 miles south of Jackson.
Gov. Phil Bryant issued a statement asking state residents to pray for the victims. "Every day, the men and women who wear the badge make some measure of sacrifice to protect and serve their communities". WWL-TV will be on the scene in Lincoln County.
Authorities in MS say a suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in a shooting, including a sheriff's deputy.
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said prosecutors plan to charge Godbolt with murder, but it's too soon to say what the motive was.
