At least 10 dead in two-town Alabama shooting spree - CNN.com -- At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting spree that spanned two small southern Alabama towns, a state official confirmed.
The FBI is assisting the Geneva County, Alabama, sheriff's office and police in the investigation.
The FBI is assisting the Geneva County, Alabama, sheriff's office and police in the investigation.
The gunman and the wife and child of a sheriff's deputy were among those killed.
The shooting started in a neighborhood in Samson, a town of about 3,000 people about 15 miles north of the Florida border, just after 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) and ended 15 miles away at a manufacturing plant in Geneva, said state Sen. Harri Anne Smith, who represents Geneva County.
"He was shooting at just ordinary people going about their business," Smith told CNN, saying she had been briefed by state and local law enforcement officials.
The gunman was killed at the plant, although it remained unclear whether he shot himself or was