CLOSE Cory Godbolt spoke with The Clarion-Ledger on scene. Therese Apel 
 
 Lincoln County Deputy William Durr (Photo: Lincoln County Sheriff's Department) 
 
 Suspect Willie Corey Godbolt told The Clarion-Ledger he intended to commit "suicide by cop" after a shooting rampage in Bogue Chitto and Brookhaven that left eight dead, including a Lincoln County deputy, two boys, his mother-in-law and other family members. 
 
 "I ain't fit to live, not after what I done," a handcuffed Godbolt, 35, who had gotten into an argument with his estranged wife over their children, told The Clarion-Ledger. 
 
 Authorities from multiple agencies took Godbolt into custody on East Lincoln Road in Brookhaven Sunday morning, some seven hours after the shooting spree started. He has been charged with one count of capital murder and seven counts of first-degree murder. 
 
 Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain, in a news release, said the shooting spree began at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday with a domestic call at 2871 Lee Drive in Bogue Chitto. 
 
 Godbolt told The Clarion-Ledger that he had gone to the residence to talk about his children. At some point neighbors called police, and that's when the deputy arrived to try to calm the situation. 
 
 Four bodies — those of three women and Lincoln County Deputy William Durr, 36 — were recovered there. 
 
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 Vincent Mitchell, the stepfather-in-law of the suspect, told The Associated Press that Godbolt's wife and their two children had been staying at his Bogue Chitto home for about three weeks after she left her husband. 
 
 After the sheriff's deputy arrived at the house, Godbolt looked as if he were about to leave, then reached into his back pocket, pulled a gun and opened fire, Mitchell said. 
 
 Mitchell said he escaped along with Godbolt's wife. But he said three family members were killed in his home: his wife, Barbara Mitchell; her daughter, Toccarra May; and his wife's sister, Brenda May. 
 
 "I'm devastated. It don't seem like it's real," Mitchell said. 
 
 The second crime scene was located at 1658 Coopertown Road in Brookhaven where the bodies of the two boys were found. The shooting there happened sometime between midnight and 5 a.m. 
 
 As authorities, including several employees of the coroner's office, processed the first scene, a call suddenly echoed out over every law enforcement radio on site: "The suspect is at a residence at 312 East Lincoln Road. He has opened fire." 
 
 Members of multiple agencies left the Bogue Chitto scene and arrived at East Lincoln as Godbolt attempted to flee the scene on foot. 
 
 As deputies held him on the ground, Godbolt talked freely about his family and how he just wanted to "live and let live, and they wouldn't let me do that." 
 
 "My pain wasn't designed for him. He was just there," Godbolt said of the deputy. "We was talking about me trying to take the children home ... somebody called the officer ... that's what they do, they intervene. It cost him his life. I'm sorry." 
 
 When asked what's next for him, Godbolt said, "Death ... Suicide by cop was my intention. I ain't fit to live. Not after what I've done." 
 
 Godbolt, of 377 Brister St. in Bogue Chitto, professed to The Clarion-Ledger his love for his wife, children and Bogue Chitto. 
 
 He also said he had been shot by someone inside the home. He was treated and taken by ambulance to a Jackson hospital. It wasn't clear who had shot him. 
 
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 The bodies of a man and a woman were recovered at the home on East Lincoln in Brookhaven. 
 
 Strain said authorities were waiting on the notification of next of kin before releasing the names of the other seven victims, though family members confirmed the identity of some of the victims. 
 
 CLOSE Corey Godbolt is accused of fatally killing eight people in Brookhaven in an overnight shooting spree that began the night of May 27, 2017, and ended the following morning. Therese Apel/The Clarion-Ledger 
 
 "Everybody that got killed was related to him, except the deputy," Johnny Hall Sr., a member of the New Zion Union M.B. Church in Bogue Chitto, told The Associated Press. He said Godbolt also was a member of the church. 
 
 Durr, married and the father of an 11-year-old son, was a two-year veteran of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department and a four-year veteran of the Brookhaven Police Department. 
 
 Officers from multiple jurisdictions arrested Cory Godbolt on East Lincoln Road this morning. He is accused of killing eight people, including a Lincoln County deputy. (Photo: Therese Apel/ The Clarion-Ledger) 
 
 Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing said the community is reeling at the loss of life. He said it will be hard for the department to deal with the Durr's absence. He had just finished DARE school and had a puppet show he would put on for the schools. He was a local favorite among children. 
 
 "It's a small community and everybody's hurting in one way or another," Rushing said. "To me, he died a hero doing his job." 
 
 Gov. Phil Bryant issued a statement asking for prayers in the aftermath of the tragedy. 
 
 “Every day, the men and women who wear the badge make some measure of sacrifice to protect and serve their communities. Too often, we lose one of our finest. I thank the law enforcement agencies involved for their hard work,” Bryant said. 
 
 Other agencies responding, Strain said, included the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Bureau of Narcotics, Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Pike, Walthall, Franklin, Copiah, Lawrence, Amite counties sheriff’s departments, and the Brookhaven Police Department. 
 
 This is, to the memory of most involved, the largest crime spree in Lincoln County history. 
 
 "Just this year we've had a quadruple homicide in Yazoo County, a quadruple homicide in the city of Jackson, a quadruple homicide in Lauderdale County, and now eight people killed in one shooting spree here in Lincoln County," Strain said. "You think you've seen it all, then another day comes along." 
 
 Lincoln County has about 34,000 people. The county seat, Brookhaven, has about 14,000 people, and Bogue Chitto, an unincorporated town of about 533, is about 10 miles south of Brookhaven. 
 
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 Brookhaven Police officers Zack Moak, left, and James White were killed in the line of duty on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. (Photo: Clarion Ledger via MS Dept. Public Safety) 
 
 BROOKHAVEN — Two Brookhaven, Mississippi police officers were killed in a shootout early Saturday morning, and the suspect, wounded and in custody, had a history of run-ins with law enforcement. 
 
 The officers, who were responding around 5 a.m. to a report of shots fired at a house, were identified as Patrolman James White, 35, and Cpl. Zach Moak, 31. 
 
 "Two heroes lost their lives today," Police Chief Kenneth Collins said at a news conference Saturday. 
 
 “They responded to the call and another was under fire, and that’s when the officer jumped in to help. They’re both heroes,” he said 
 
 Suspect Marquis Flowers, 25, wounded in the gunfire, was taken into custody and transported to a Jackson hospital. Flowers, a validated Gangster Disciple, is the only suspect involved, although others have been questioned about the shooting, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said at the news conference. 
 
 Brookhaven police received the call from a neighborhood about a mile north of the Brookhaven high school on the eastern side of town at about 4:47 a.m. White responded to the residence at 630 North Sixth St. first, with Moak quickly behind him. 
 
 The chief said both officers were wearing bulletproof vests and equipped with body and dashcam cameras. Strain said the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, which is investigating the shooting, will review any recording for additional details on what happened. 
 
 Strain said his department could have an update on the case as soon as Monday. 
 
 Lincoln County Coroner Clay McMorris declined to give details on the shootings, such as where the two officers were shot, citing the MBI investigation. He said officials with King's Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven pronounced the two officers deceased at about 5:30 a.m. 
 
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 By mid-morning, MBI had sealed off the three roads leading to the residence as residents looked on from their porches. Witnesses had different recollections of what occurred Saturday morning. Some said they hadn't heard any gunshots in the densely packed neighborhood. Another resident, who asked not to be identified, said he did hear the shots and immediately jumped to the floor for safety. One resident said it wasn't unusual to hear gunshots in that part of town. 
 
 Collins described the events that unfolded as something that could happen to his officers anytime, anywhere. 
 
 "We answer those calls many times, and nothing ever happens. One hundred times — just that one time is all it takes," he said. 
 
 Moak graduated from Enterprise Attendance Center in Lincoln County and studied auto mechanics at Copiah-Lincoln Community College. He began his career with BPD in August 2015. 
 
 White had returned to work for the department in June 2015 after a stint with the Monticello Police Department, about 20 miles east of Brookhaven. 
 
 Marquis Flowers (Photo: MS Dept. of Public Safety) 
 
 Flowers, of Brookhaven, had several run-ins with area law enforcement, according to the Brookhaven Daily Leader. 
 
 In February 2017, he led law enforcement on a "high-speed chase" after failing to yield for a traffic stop. Flowers was wearing an electronic monitor at the time and was on probation for vehicle burglary in Lincoln County. 
 
 The shooting deaths come 16 months after former Brookhaven officer turned Lincoln County Deputy William Durr was killed in a shooting rampage that left seven others dead as well. Willie Cory Godbolt, who was arrested May 28, 2017, in that case, is awaiting trial. He faces the death penalty if convicted. 
 
 The flag outside the city's police department was lowered to half-mast shortly after the shooting. 
 
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 "This is devastating for our community, especially given what has already happened so recently," Brookhaven Mayor Joe Cox said. 
 
 "Our community is strong, and we'll pull together as a family. Our sympathies go out to the families and we want them to know we'll be with them to support them as they cope with this tragedy." 
 
 In a statement issued on Twitter, Gov. Phil Bryant asked for prayers "for the family and loved ones of these fallen heroes." 
 
 A candlelight/prayer vigil will be held Sunday night at 7 p.m. in front of Brookhaven Police Department. 
 
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 Four children and two adults are dead; one victim is in critical condition 
 
 A victim called police, who intercepted the suspect as he approached a second home 
 
 The suspect, Ron Lee Haskell, 34, surrendered after a three-hour standoff 
 
 A man shot and killed four children and two adults Wednesday at a Houston-area home belonging to relatives of his estranged wife, authorities said. 
 
 A seventh person, a 15-year-old girl, was critically wounded in the shooting near Spring, Texas, and taken to a local hospital. 
 
 Ron Lee Haskell was arrested after a three-hour standoff that followed a short chase with sheriff's deputies. Haskell, 34, is being held on charges of capital murder, Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Ron Hickman said. 
 
 Killed were Stephen Stay, 39; Katie Stay, 33; two boys, ages 13 and 4; and two girls, ages 9 and 7, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. 
 
 Police said Haskell entered the home demanding to know the whereabouts of his estranged wife, who was not there. 
 
 The house belonged to relatives of Haskell's spouse, and Haskell might have been an uncle by marriage to at least some of the children, but his relationship to everyone in the home wasn't immediately clear, Hickman said. 
 
 "I've not personally in 40 years seen a tragedy in one family that's this horrific," he told reporters Thursday morning. 
 
 Officials: Suspect was prepared to take more lives 
 
 Haskell, apparently posing as a parcel delivery driver late Wednesday afternoon, entered the home of one of his estranged wife's relatives while only the children were there, Hickman said. 
 
 Wearing a purple "Fed-Ex-looking shirt," the suspect "gathered up the children" and waited for the two adults to arrive, he said. 
 
 Haskell was not the slain children's father, as police had mistakenly asserted earlier, Hickman said. 
 
 Haskell used to drive for a service that had a contract with FedEx, but not since January, FedEx spokeswoman Erin Truxal said. 
 
 Investigators didn't immediately know what led to the shooting; Hickman described it as a "domestic situation." 
 
 Authorities believe the suspect was prepared to take the lives of other relatives who lived nearby. 
 
 As the gunman left, one of the victims called police and notified "us of the location that she believed that he may go from there," Hickman said. 
 
 "Grandparents were also targets of him," Harris County Sheriff's Sgt. Thomas Gilliland said. "Fortunately, they were brought out of the house before that could happen, (or) we would have had more tragedy." 
 
 Hours-long standoff 
 
 Haskell approached the second home and saw officers there; he drove away and the officers pursued him, Hickman said. 
 
 Police trapped Haskell in a cul-de-sac, and he surrendered after about three hours, having had discussions with negotiators, Hickman and Gilliland said. 
 
 During much of the standoff, Haskell held a gun to his head, while deputies surrounded him with their weapons drawn, police said. 
 
 Haskell has children with his estranged wife, but those children were not believed to have been in the Spring-area home where the shootings happened, Hickman said. The estranged wife lives out of state, police said. 
 
 Haskell is expected to make his first court appearance Friday at 9 a.m., the county clerk's office said. 
 
 Spring is about 20 miles north of Houston.
– A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife over their children was arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including a sheriff's deputy, per the AP. "I ain't fit to live, not after what I done," a handcuffed Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, told the Clarion-Ledger. The shootings took place at three homes Saturday night—two in Brookhaven and one in Bogue Chitto—about 70 miles south of Jackson, after authorities got a call about a domestic dispute, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said. The dead included two boys, investigators said. Godbolt was listed in good condition at a hospital with a gunshot wound; authorities did not say how he was wounded. Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said charges had yet to be filed and it was too soon to say what the motive was. Authorities gave no details on the relationship between Godbolt and the victims. However, Godbolt himself shed some light on what happened in a video interview with the newspaper as he sat with his hands cuffed behind his back on the side of a road. Godbolt said he was talking with his wife and in-laws when somebody called authorities. "I was having a conversation with her stepdaddy and her mama and her, my wife, about me taking my children home," he said. "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," he said, apparently referring to the deputy. "I'm sorry." The stepfather-in-law, Vincent Mitchell, said in an interview that Godbolt's wife and their two children had been staying at his Bogue Chitto home for about three weeks after she left her husband.