A mass shooting in Iowa on Monday, in which six people were killed by a man who then took his own life, is being investigated as a so-called “family annihilation” in which the murderer and victims are closely related.
Police in Muscatine, about 50 miles (80km) south-east of Cedar Rapids, said 52-year-old Ryan Willis McFarland fatally shot four people at a home in the city, then killed himself on a riverfront trail as officers spoke to him.
