The Geneva County massacre on March 10, 2009, was perpetrated by Michael Kenneth McLendon, a 28-year-old gunman, who shot and killed ten people in a shooting spree in three communities in two southern Alabama counties: Kinston in Coffee County, and Samson and Geneva in Geneva County. Five of the victims were family members and two were children. After engaging in an exchange of fire with police, he committed suicide, bringing the total of dead to eleven. Officials said this was the worst shooting event in Alabama history.
He first killed his mother and burned down her house in the town of Kinston; he then killed his maternal grandmother, uncle, two cousins and others, and wounded six at Samson. When law enforcement reached him, McLendon was dead from a gunshot; initially it was unclear whether the shot was self-inflicted. Later reports said he committed suicide.
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