911 caller reports finding 5 bodies while visiting home, North Carolina officials say

Five bodies were found just after midnight in a rural North Carolina home, and investigators believe it is a case of multiple homicides, Sampson County Sheriff’s Office reports.

The discovery was made around 12:40 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at a home in the 10300 block of Garland Highway north of Ingold, officials said. Ingold is about 75 miles southeast of Raleigh.

All five people had been shot, according to Lt. Marcus D. Smith of the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office.

The department was alerted to the mass killing by a 911 caller who discovered the bodies around 11:40 p.m., he said. “Deputies responded and located five deceased subjects — four males and one female,” he said.

They range in age from 30s to 80s and included people of different “racial and ethnic backgrounds,” officials said.

The man who called 911 told WTVD he had just gotten off from work and stopped by the home “with a few beers.” When he stepped inside, he saw “multiple bodies lying on the ground,” then ran out screaming, the station reports.

Identities of the victims have not been released, and investigators have not said how the victims were connected to each other.

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