The 40-year-old man who fatally 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 semirural suburb of Hampton, Georgia, on Saturday and 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 (25 kilometers) north. The exchange of gunfire wounded a sheriff’s deputy and two police officers, who were all 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.
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